Destroying office equipment seems like a good way to become unemployed. Not everything has to be absolutes; before burning the building down, you could just ask "hey, what's with the cameras".
Normally I'd agree, and there are plenty of work sites where cameras can work in the employees' favour, but for a journalist of a large respectable newspaper?
At the very least they would have had something to write about, because this article is lukewarm at best and feels like a complainy blog post.
Also, getting fired at a news paper for blacking out the cameras in the vicinity of your desk as a protest because a new security chief wants to feel important is probably a blessing in disguise.
