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You know, the more I think about this, the bottom line here is this: The Miami Herald can fire him for no reason. They can say their policies are in the midst of being "updated" or whatever they want.

However, the Miami Herald may not like that a lot of people in the news business, and their community, have been signing that online petition. That petition is very bad press for the Miami Herald, and its existence does a lot to damage the Herald's reputation.

So, regardless of whether this was legal or illegal what Defede did, the Miami Herald might take Defede back just because of the pressure the Herald feels. And, someone on the petition is complaining about a violent photo the Herald ran in this Teele matter, saying the editor who allowed school children to see THAT on the fron page should be fired!

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Jim DeFede is a good, muckraking reporter. What he did was a violation of statute. Period. However, the Herald cut him loose because they were looking for a scapegoat in the immediate aftermath of the Teele suicide.

DeFede should have been brought up on the appropriate charge, and the Herald should have cut him loose after having been found guilty by a jury of his peers. Cutting him loose prior to a trial smacks of the scapegoating that this was. Shame on Tom Fiedler. I expected more of him.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[KC_for_Freedom]

You know, the more I think about this, the bottom line here is this: The Miami Herald can fire him for no reason

Agreed, the rest is just scapegoating. And I like Chris's post too