Here's your first amendment!
OK, so this Paula Deen thing. So, if I have it straight (and it really doesn't matter if I do not) some years ago, she used the word nigger (that which you would term the "N-word") in some manner of discourse. Now, her television program has been cancelled and her corporate sponsors have abandoned her because of it. I think that's pretty much it. What the masses fail to note is that the people at The Food Network (a real television station) have realized is that people like Paula Deen fall from the trees. As such, they have determined that any blip in her media radar will determine her fate. Ergo, when she says nigger, they say, goodbye. And it's on to the next big media chef. Simple. There are no first amendment rights that have been trampled upon. Merely, a company has determined that their standards do not equate with the standards of their employees. Paula will not be prosecuted under the full extent of the law. ...