HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Fired Huntsville TV reporter Shea Allen appeared on the Today Show this morning, saying the personal blog entries she was fired over were meant to be "snarky or funny," and she never expected to lose her job over them.



Shea Allen, a former reporter for WAAY-31 TV in Huntsville, was fired over posts made on her personal blog. (Contributed by Shea Allen)

"I certainly didn't think it would come to this," Allen said in the

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Allen, a former special investigations reporter at

posted on her personal blog that, among other things, she had gone braless on camera, took naps in her news car and has a fear of old people and refused to do stories about them.

The show also showed a clip from a video Allen posted on her

in which she turns the camera on herself and says "This is me in my car, waiting to do a story about nothing and getting paid less than most McDonald's managers."

Lindsey Pollak, a career and workplace expert, told Today that social media is an important tool for news reporters, but can blur the lines between personal and professional.

She said younger professionals "don't have the same filter" about posting personal opinions and information on social media that people who started their careers before the advent of social media have.

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said 52 percent said "no," when asked if Allen's blog posts were a fireable offense, while 48 percent said "yes."

Allen said she posted the blog - titled "Confessions of a Red-Headed Reporter" - on Tuesday, July 23, after work. Station management called her into a meeting about the blog on Friday morning, Allen said, and she was terminated.

Allen told Today that she was asked by her employer to take the post down, which she did, only to decide to re-post it with this statement:

Her situation has drawn national media attention. In addition to the Today Show, she said she also had interviews lined up with "Inside Edition" and at least six radio shows.

WAAY-31 management has declined to comment because it is a personnel issue.