"He no longer works at the Chronicle, effective today," spokesman Joe Brown said. He declined to give a reason for the action. Norr was not immediately available for comment.
Unlike many U.S. newspapers, the Chronicle does not bar its reporters from participating in political events, but a memo distributed internally by the paper last month advises its staff to be cautious and gain approval from superiors first.
Norr has said in the past that he was unfairly treated and that no one should expect complete objectivity from a journalist. The paper originally told Norr, who organized marches during the Vietnam War before becoming a journalist, he was being suspended for claiming a sick day to attend the anti-war protest.
===== <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
-Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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