1. Was it appropriate for the station to suspend Giangreco for expressing his personal opinion on his Twitter feed? Why or why not?

Marc Giangreco, a longtime and popular sports anchor of ABC station WLS-7, recently tweeted that President Donald Trump was “a cartoon lunatic”
in a “country full of simpletons.” The station, owned by the Disney Company, responded by giving Giangreco a suspension of several weeks that began a few days later when company executives became aware of the tweet, which Giangreco had already deleted. The station’s public statement about the unpaid suspension said only that “
Giangreco’s Twitter comments are not in line with ABC-7 Chicago’s nonpartisan editorial standards”
and called its response “appropriate.”
Giangreco, who appears on two nightly toprated news broadcasts and is known for his sharp tongue, has gotten into trouble a few times in the past for making unwise comments, though not on social media. Most news organizations require their employees to project an objective stance on the news and to avoid making divisive or inflammatory comments. Some social media users have lost their jobs over offensive or inflammatory posts they should not have made. For instance, Career Builder reports that 18 percent of employers have fired someone because of something they posted.