How about when the article was published someone informed the paper of her activities. Simplest explanation.
as the evening went later the night of the election, I was flipping channels trying to find the most decompensations among the Hillary supporters. I was watching the NYT probability of a Trump win approach 100% and I turned on NBC. There was a fairly attractive 30 something woman having a complete Chernobyl moment and I was waiting to see if they ran a scroll under her name showing she was a Clinton campaign worker or better yet, one of the inner circle. I was wrong!!! she was one of the NBC news reporters covering the Hillary "Victory Party". She looked like some of the Nazis hearing death sentence verdicts at Nuremberg. In fact she looked even more upset
Seems you wish to attack posters so it is my turn today. I researched the woman. She has not worked for the NRA. We see Democrat reporters a lot representing other than their newspaper yet they don't get suspended. She got out pronto.
As you finally admitted, she never got paid by the NRA. When Biden would show up on Jimmy Kimmel, one hopes that does not make him an employee of ABC.
You seem to be hanging your hat on a "paid" job. Would you be so narrow in your thinking if she were, for example, a very public Brady member doing work to restrict gun access while hiding that from her employers? No, we all know where you'd stand. You'd demand she be fired with no recourse and be blocked from working in the field again. I have no problem with her NRA work but her failure to be open about that led to her suspension and that suspension was clearly justified. Her resigning in a huff is just her trying to use your narrow thinking to her advantage. E.G., she's playing you.
Co-host, commentator, contributor. Nothing about guest, or op-ed. Her various "roles" with the NRA show her to be much closer than "arm's length" and that closeness, while not unethical in and of itself, requires disclosure in a journalistic setting. She purposefully or negligently failed to live up to the ethical requirements of her job and was sanctioned. Her "sacrificing" herself in the name of the First is just her playing you to get a better gig.
I strongly suspect if she were a Democrat, your opinion would be 180 degrees different. My take is that it depends on her contract with the newspaper.
It does not depend on her contract. She broke the first rule of journalism. She should have been fired.