The other day MSNBC posted a list of journalists who had given money to support political campaigns and organizations, often against their employers policies. Since that article at least three of those individuals have been fired. From a followup at MSNBC:

The TV reporter in Omaha who posted a photo of herself on Facebook.com with a congressional candidate, urging her friends to vote for him, is no longer working at the station.

Also out: an editorial cartoonist who said he didn’t “give a rat’s ass” about his newspaper’s policy on campaign contributions by journalists.

And one newspaper has dropped the syndicated column “The Ethicist” by New York Times writer Randy Cohen because of his donation to MoveOn.org, which he said he had thought of as “nonpartisan.”

Though I always hate seeing people lose their jobs this is probably the right message for other journalists and a chance for editors & producers to start being more strict about their policies.