Don Lemon Is Out at CNN Following Controversial Comments
glamour.coms jaw-dropping breakup with Fox News when Twitter started lighting up with reactions to yet another major departure: Don Lemon’s from CNN. “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN.
I am stunned,” Lemon, who co-hosts the embattled CNN This Morning, said in a statement on Twitter, which you can read in full below:This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The New York Times, which had a jump on the news, pinned Lemon’s firing on the obvious culprit: his regarding Nikki Haley and women and the age at which they are “past their prime.” The comments thrust CNN into a public relations crisis and made it all the way to the Oscars, where at Lemon in her acceptance speech.
As the Times , “CNN’s bookers had discovered that some guests did not want to appear on-air with Mr. Lemon, and research on the morning show reviewed by CNN executives found that his popularity with audiences had fallen.” Just a couple days ago, the New York Post that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre agreed to appear on CNN This Morning only if Lemon was not the one to interview her. (CNN and the White House both poured a bit of cold water on the report, but it would seem to track.)Anyone can wear it, but that doesn't mean they should.
By Sources who know how things went down told me it all played out within the last 48 hours, which is the timeframe when Lemon’s co-hosts, Kaitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow, were informed of the decision.
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