JimRomenesko.com has updated the story of the Fort Myers, Florida reporter who dissed the Chick-fil-A crowd on Appreciation Day on his Facebook page -- writing that “the level of hatred, unfounded fear and misinformed people was astoundingly sad” -- has resigned.
Fort Myers News-Press reporter Mark Krzos pulled that post and left Facebook. His editor, Terry Eberle, told News-Press and Romenesko readers the post was “completely inappropriate” and that “we will take strong and appropriate action.” Krzos resigned after a meeting with Eberle. But Krzos has a leftist poet on his side, protesting the "corporate kidnapping of free speech":
the News-Press in on the breach
taking away their reporter’s rights
and the public is letting it go down without a fight,
Posting on Facebook is freedom of the press,
and Gannett has their employees under duress,
but it’s OK they’ll be a new story next week
about how real estate scams get by without a squeak
and paradise is getting the leprosy
they know history repeats its amnesia quite memorably.
Truth-tellers become scapegoats
and liars become politicians
and a lying press is a magnet for advertising success
so open your minds to their omissions.
