Reply #32: Not necessarily

[JonLP24]

NBC management lowered Ashleigh Banfield's profile for criticizing the media's coverage of the Iraq war at a speech given at a University. Here is what she says about it.

“Yet they wouldn’t let me leave. I begged for seventeen months to be let out of my contract. If they had no use for me, let’s just part ways amicably — no need for payouts, just a clean break. And Neal wouldn’t allow it. I don’t know what his rationale was — perhaps he thought I would take what I felt was a very strong brand, and others felt was a very strong brand, to another network and make a success of it. Maybe that’s why he chose to keep me in a warehouse. I will never forgive him for his cruelty and the manner in which he decided to dispose of me.”
http://mofflymedia.com/Moffly-Publications/New-Canaan-Darien-Magazine/January-2009/Truth-and-Consequences/index.php?cparticle=4&siarticle=3#artanc

They also fired Donahue because he was critical of the decision to go to war leading up to it. However to be fair this was before it was political popular to be against it.