Alaska public radio reporter resigns because of blog posts
Most of us learn the lesson in some form or another. Whether it’s alienating a friend or loved one or getting fired from our jobs, at some point the notion that the blogosphere is a small world after all becomes immediately apparent. Eileen Goode, a news director for an Alaska public radio station, learned her lesson when a local resident stumbled across a personal blogspot account Goode had created, one that honestly and unwaveringly criticized the local culture in the town. Once the one resident had it, it quickly spread.
But last week, Goode’s adopted Alaska town came across the blog too. Her neighbors weren’t laughing, and now Goode is out of a job.
The 28-year-old resigned from KDLG on Monday morning, she said, after a firestorm of outrage over the sometimes serious, sometimes mocking jabs she made at the town over problems like alcoholism and sexual abuse on her personal blog, titled “Chilly Hell” and subtitled “I’m in Dillingham Alaska — What’s Your Excuse?”
Perhaps appropriately, Goode took to her blog — presumably after her resignation — to defend herself.
