You can be fired for getting sunburned. You’re at will unless you have a contract that stipulates what you can and can’t do.
Asserting 1st Amendment rights aside, whatever happened to keeping your own counsel and playing your cards close to the chest?
Easiest way to get in trouble these days is to tweet your thoughts or post them to Facebook.
Yes, the station manager is a partisan jerk but she must have known this.
The key to the Trump victory was millions of voters keeping their mouths shut and/or lying to pollsters until the moment of truth arrived in the voting booth.
Hope things work out for her but why make yourself a target?
Years ago there was a reporter at a local station. That station had a ‘morals’ code in their contract. The female reporter was not married and had a baby. She never named who the father was. The reporter was not fired. Any guess why not?