IRONY: 'Recession Diaries' Blogger Not Allowed To Blog About Being Laid Off

The Chicago Tribune gave Lou Carlozo a tough assignment: to cover his own finances as he and his family weathered the recession.

Carlozo lost his job yesterday, as did 52 others. And, he writes at True/Slant, he wasn’t allowed to blog about being laid off.

“I wanted to post a final blog Wednesday to readers explaining that I had lost my job, a victim of the very recession I covered. I posted this without management’s approval. I then informed management.

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