Even God is annoyed at Mel Gibson.

Calpundit on Easterbrook

UPDATE: Was this instead a reaction to the fact that Easterbrook took a shot at Disney and Michael Eisner, which owns ESPN? I sure hope not. Sure, normally you expect employees not to criticize the boss, but journalism is different. If Easterbrook got fired for that, it's not much different than firing Peter Jennings for airing a news story critical of Disney. In other words, it would be even worse than getting fired for what he said about Jews.

Well, no, not quite. If this is what happened, he got fired not for calling his company evil, but for calling his boss evil. I'd bet if he left those last two grafs off the piece, and just ran a slam on the movie he would be fine, even though he would have been criticizing his own company. But he went a step further and personally insulted his boss.

I'm not saying it's right, but if you call your boss a greedy Jew in public, you shouldn't be surprised if he fires you.

Yet more proof that blogging is not journalism. Instapundit is all in a dither over reports that Gregg Easterbrook was apparently fired from ESPN after his anti-Semitic column in The New Republic.

In all the many, many links here I see lots of speculation, theories and rumors about why ESPN has done this, as well as outrage that they have done this.

There are complaints that "ESPN owes an explanation, and [Drum]wonders why it hasn't produced one."

Well gee, maybe some of these bloggers might actually, I don't know, get off their butts and call someone at ESPN and ask for a comment? Journalism isn't just sitting around blathering about what you think and providing links to what other people think. It involves, actual, you know, reporting.