> Do you know any examples of people being fired from their jobs for criticizing the Iraq war in 2004? Phil Donahue's popular show was cancelled and he was the

> Do you know any examples of people being fired from their jobs for criticizing the Iraq war in 2004? Phil Donahue's popular show was cancelled and he was therefore fired from MSNBC, because of Iraq war opposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program Ashleigh Banfield's career was derailed at NBC news and her profile lowered. They didn't fire her but what they did was truly shitty. She said: > I was office-less for ten months ... No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. ... I will never forgive him for his cruelty and the manner in which he decided to dispose of me. She eventually quit and joined CourtTV(?) because of it. And Chris Hedges at NYT maybe. Wiki: > Hedges was an early critic of the Iraq War. In May 2003, Hedges delivered a commencement address at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, saying: "We are embarking on an occupation that, if history is any guide, will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security."[24] His speech was received with boos and his microphone was shut off three minutes after he began speaking.[25] > The New York Times, his employer, criticized his statements and issued him a formal reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality".[26] Shortly after the incident, Hedges left The New York Times to become a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, and a columnist at Truthdig, in addition to writing books and teaching inmates at a New Jersey correctional institution. Not fired fired, but perhaps kicked out, or leaving before the axe came. A little more here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/american-patriots-would-k_b_827000.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/american-patr... I'm sure there are other journalists I'm forgetting who were fired or had some level of career destruction because of their criticism. 2004 was a truly bad time to have interesting opinions plus a career on the line. And it feels like that again to be honest, though in very different areas.