NEW YORK (AP) — CBS has fired a corporate lawyer who said on social media about the Las Vegas mass shooting that she wasn’t sympathetic because “country music fans often are Republican gun-toters.”
The network said Monday that Hayley Geftman-Gold had violated the company’s standards by expressing deeply unacceptable views. Geftman-Gold was a vice president and senior legal counsel at CBS in New York and had worked there for a year.
Geftman-Gold made the comments on Facebook in connection with a discussion on gun control. She said she had no hope that Republicans would take action if they didn’t do anything when children were murdered, an apparent reference to the Sandy Hook massacre.
At least 58 people were killed in Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history.
With the big 5 giant MSM corporations, if you say anything anti-Republican you lose your job. If you say anything or make up lies about progressives, you get a promotion and defended as having your heart in the right place.
The right wing US main stream media has brain washed Americans to supporting politicians who hate the middle class - like Rump.
I doubt that this was about saying something anti-GOP. I’m confident it was really about the shocking tastelessness of the comment. However, it does raise questions about what is the line to be drawn by large companies like CBS in punishing employees who, in their personal social media accounts, say unpopular, crude or tasteless things. After all, this is a woman who did not have a public face for CBS; she didn’t appear on TV or act as a company spokesperson. I’m a little uncomfortable about companies firing someone in this situation, although obviously they have the legal right to do so. And what if she had expressed herself in a slightly more palatable manner–for example, instead of saying she had little sympathy, she had instead simply pointed out the irony? Would that also have been a firing offense?
If her personal FB page listed her employer then I can see CBS wanting to distance themselves from her.
Well… as a lawyer, she might, just might, have requested clarification of that portion of her employment contract before she signed.
Republicans are the ones stopping anything being done on gun control on automatic weapons that can kill 100 people in 30 seconds. This is a horrible thing that happened, but I think that we will be saying this more and more until something more is done to stop this senseless killing.