In an ideal case they should be able to express their opinions and people wouldn't extrapolate them to the respective employer. Journalists not able to express

In an ideal case they should be able to express their opinions and people wouldn't extrapolate them to the respective employer. Journalists not able to express themselves freely because of guilt by association would be a huge problem and being able to do so provides extra information that can put articles in context. Another fact worth mentioning is that large publishers all have a direct business relationship with social media companies, primarily Facebook I believe. Some better newspapers were transparent about it and lamented this fact as a necessity in the current news market. Thanks to companies generally having no backbone and disciplining employees for social media use or generally for their opinions, we are at this bad situation. If they just had ignored the complaints... All that said, the opinions of the most outspoken journalists often seem very predictable and in many cases they actually argued in favor of accountability by social media use by writing their outrage articles about some random tweets. I think a lot of those have missed their profession... Didn't take disclaimers like "opinions are my own" too seriously, but apparently they might be needed for some journalists at least.