"He told me: 'We've decided to terminate you. ABC wants to replace you with a correspondent who will travel to war zones,' " Gizbert recalled. "I said, 'You're firing me because I won't go to war zones?' 'No,' he said, 'we're terminating you and replacing you with someone who will.' And I said: 'Isn't that the same thing?' "
Wilford would not comment on Gizbert's case for legal reasons. Nor would the news department's head of communications, Jeffrey W. Schneider. But, he said the company's policy was that "war zones are always voluntary assignments. We respect the personal decision of anybody who works for us regarding their desire to travel to a war zone."
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