Posted on 12/08/2021 7:13:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Is CNN a fount of journalist corruption? Right after the cable broadcaster fired its star journalist, Chris Cuomo for collaborating with his brother in a bid to fend off sex harassment charges, it now comes to light that CNN's Don Lemon was essentially caught doing the same thing.
According to the Washington Examiner:
Following reports that Chris Cuomo helped his brother with his high-profile sexual harassment scandal, another one of CNN's prime-time anchors faces controversy.
Actor Jussie Smollett revealed during his testimony Monday that CNN anchor Don Lemon texted him during the early stages of the Chicago Police Department's investigation into his alleged hate crime hoax.
Smollett said Lemon texted him that the CPD did not believe Smollett's account of the incident, the New York Post reported . Lemon was relaying information he had gotten from sources in the CPD, according to the outlet.
So young Jussy, who was defending himself in court based on events dating to his phony hate crime, got a helpful hand from Lemon, who advised him which of his statements worked with the cops, and which didn't.
It's an outrageous break with newsroom ethics around the issue of conflicts of interest. Here Lemon was using his privileged position in the news to help a hate-crime suspect beat charges by giving him an advantage .His thumb on the scale of justice here amounted to a whopping conflict of interest.
CNN is about to be helmed with new ownerhip. Those new owners reportedly are interested in moving to a straight news format. Big heads have been slated to roll. Cuomo certainly was snared in conflict of interest tickets from cops until it came and bit him,. Now there's Don Lemon. Are there no straight uncorrupted journalists left at that network?
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By far the DUMBEST person ever to be given a prime time show on any network or cable channel...
TOKEN doesn’t even begin to cover this doofus.
“New owners reportedly are interested in moving to a straight news format”
I’ll believe when I see it, but I haven’t watched them in years. (”straight” news? Isn’t that anti-homo? haha)
If anybody bothered to look hard enough they would find that everybody at CNN is either a degenerate or pervert. Problem is, they all protect each other because they all belong to the same club.
If Lemon were white and straight, he couldn’t get arrested..
He is the poster boy of what diversity for diversity sake gets you....
Pursue excellence and merit... if you do this, the rest takes care of itself.
Adding on the disgusting sexual assault charges and liberals are still fine with seeing his mug on tv every night.
“CNN sours on Lemon”
“Fake News at 11”
Dahn Lesmohn.
The token pseudo French garcon noire for CNN is about to be deflated, drug through the mud and disposed of like so much trash in the tub?
SHAME! ( severe sarc.)
The radical Dem left Bolshevik media purges have begun.
Cable “news” of all flavors is a joke.
It’s insane that the political world really thinks that shows that draw in maybe 1% of the population, combined, really drive anything?
They only do because the “leaders” are equally idiots.
“The radical Dem left Bolshevik media purges have begun.”
It’s almost as if the Deep State realized that they were moving too far to the left and some culling of the leftwing herd needs to take place.
Hard to fire or demote a minority or politically connected individual. However, any action that violates their contract especially regarding ethics is grounds for termination and does not leave CNN vulnerable to lawsuits and claims of racism, homophobia, sexism or all of the above. Cumuo and Lemon are two of their prize idiots. Seems awful convenient this is coming out now🤔
The left is an incestuous pool of filthy propagandists. They are all tied together. Schools produce leftists. Leftists go into media. Lefitts go into government. Leftists create “art”. They sell “art” and speeches at colleges as a means to launder money to each other. They are all tied together, they all work together towards destruction of capitalism and the USA.
Thatys right.
The Dems need to make examples of the too far left herd and attack their weakest.AOC is likely safe, dangit.
But the Dems also will invoke a distraction , and its coming.
I pray it is not a shooting war with Rusha Rusha Rusha! They have created a myth that Rusha is an enemy.
They are a small nuclear armed state, who are Coptic Christians, we do not need a war with them, but because of Biden, I fear its coming.
And it is a war we will lose.
They need to get rid of Alisyn Camerota too.
Firing a bipoc/glbtqrxyz type may be a little more costly than roid-o-matic sissy chrissy kooo-mo is gonna be.
Who would ever have thought the news would be the new soap operas, sigh.
True and hopefully Joy Reid will be next at MSNBC.
We were all in love with her. If Don Lemon were on, we would have destroyed the TV.
Who’s next doesn’t matter, they’re all going to get sh#t-canned eventually - all the “talent” that is. Those who opine and sit on panels and do more than read the news. Personally I’m waiting for the big tears from that fat political hack Gloria Booger, the dumb hack Tapper, all the token “conservatives” like Mandy Carpenter and that fat yapping chihuahua get the axe. They might let Anderson Pooper and Wolf stay if they want to read the news for low money, it’s not like Anderson needs the dough. All the abject media whores like Bernstein and Axlegrease will be toast but they may keep a few undesirables like Acosta who will claim they are actually reporters. Lemon is so untalented and compromised he may well be first to go or maybe just one of many in a mass firing, hopefully soon.
Since CNN does not practice journalism, the charge of corruption does not really apply. It is a propaganda outfit.
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