I FIND IT DISTURBING THAT A FREE LANCE REPORTER FOR NPR, ON HER OWN TIME, IS FIRED FOR JOINING THE OCCUPY DC MOVEMENT

by Victor M Adamus

Maybe the gubmint should stop supporting NPR since they obviously denied Lisa Simeone her right to exercise her free speech and right of peaceful assembly.  The Baltimore Sun has the entire story, link below the quote.

Simeone's role as a spokeswoman for October 2011, a group encamped in the nation's capital as part of the Occupy

D.C. movement, was first questioned in a blog post at The Daily Caller Wednesday.

"I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American citizen -- the right to free speech, the right to peaceable assembly -- on my own time in my own life," Simeone wrote in an email response to questions from the Sun Wednesday night.

"I'm not an NPR employee," she continued. " I'm a freelancer. NPR doesn't pay me. I'm also not a news reporter. I don't cover politics. I've never brought a whiff of my political activities into the work I've done for NPR World of Opera. What is NPR afraid I'll do -- insert a seditious comment into a synopsis of Madame Butterfly?"

Simeone went on to say, "This sudden concern with my political activities is also surprising in light of the fact that Mara Liaason reports on politics for NPR yet appears as a commentator on FoxTV, Scott Simon hosts an NPR news show yet writes political op-eds for national newspapers, Cokie Roberts reports on politics for NPR yet accepts large speaking fees from businesses. Does NPR also send out "Communications Alerts" about their activities?"

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