24-04-2023, 05:25 PM
(24-04-2023, 05:17 PM)Omnipresent Wrote: Don Lemon has been fired. What a day in US cable news!
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My goodness! Him and Tucker Carlson in one day!
(24-04-2023, 05:17 PM)Omnipresent Wrote: Don Lemon has been fired. What a day in US cable news!
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(24-04-2023, 05:17 PM)Omnipresent Wrote: Don Lemon has been fired. What a day in US cable news!
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(24-04-2023, 05:26 PM)bakamann Wrote:(24-04-2023, 05:17 PM)Omnipresent Wrote: Don Lemon has been fired. What a day in US cable news!
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US News Media seems to have shaken for the past couple of minutes, with Tucker's unceremonious firing... and now Don Lemon.
Did he showed up at CNN This Morning earlier, or just Kaitlan and Poppy?
(24-04-2023, 05:29 PM)drnilescrane Wrote:Indeed, Carlson’s firing may have been the “breaking of the dam” that allowed CNN to feel that the time was right for a cleanup, and previous untouchables do have to go. Otherwise it’s an incredible coincidence! If it is not a coincidence, you have to think that Licht misjudged this by failing to fire him much earlier.(24-04-2023, 05:26 PM)bakamann Wrote: US News Media seems to have shaken for the past couple of minutes, with Tucker's unceremonious firing... and now Don Lemon.
Did he showed up at CNN This Morning earlier, or just Kaitlan and Poppy?
He did the show this morning.
Speculation on my part, but I think CNN saw a window with the Tucker Carlson news and decided to fix their own personnel problem.
(24-04-2023, 05:33 PM)interestednovice Wrote:(24-04-2023, 05:29 PM)drnilescrane Wrote: He did the show this morning.Indeed, Carlson’s firing may have been the “breaking of the dam” that allowed CNN to feel that the time was right for a cleanup, and previous untouchables do have to go. Otherwise it’s an incredible coincidence! If it is not a coincidence, you have to think that Licht misjudged this by failing to fire him much earlier.
Speculation on my part, but I think CNN saw a window with the Tucker Carlson news and decided to fix their own personnel problem.
It was a full house on CNN This Morning, as you say, with all the regular three - as you can see on Don’s own Twitter feed.
(24-04-2023, 05:40 PM)Newsroom Wrote:(24-04-2023, 05:33 PM)interestednovice Wrote: Indeed, Carlson’s firing may have been the “breaking of the dam” that allowed CNN to feel that the time was right for a cleanup, and previous untouchables do have to go. Otherwise it’s an incredible coincidence! If it is not a coincidence, you have to think that Licht misjudged this by failing to fire him much earlier.
It was a full house on CNN This Morning, as you say, with all the regular three - as you can see on Don’s own Twitter feed.
They'll need to edit those titles pronto and get his name removed before it's back on the air tomorrow.
(24-04-2023, 05:49 PM)drnilescrane Wrote:(24-04-2023, 05:40 PM)Newsroom Wrote: They'll need to edit those titles pronto and get his name removed before it's back on the air tomorrow.
I assume it'll be like Today post Lauer and generic titles will be used until they have a personnel announcement.
Will be interesting to see if they address it directly or just downplay it. It's not like they have specific allegations to address like Lauer/Rose.
(24-04-2023, 06:09 PM)TMD_24 Wrote: Seems like CNN offered Don a meeting according to them to be directly fired but didn't take it up.
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