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Former CNN host Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest
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It was probably a hard decision, but in the end they didn’t want to give the guy the shaft.
Here is an interesting take from Daily Kos on this matter.
www.dailykos.com
The liberal newsletter argues that while all of our presidents have had problems when dealing with the media, this is the first one (he did it in 2017) to claim that the media was doling out "fake news." He is also the first one to have a hand in who owns what media and, by virtue of his insides with large money media owners, a big say in what stories get reported by the mainstream media and how those stories are reported. And I'm afraid that we could well see more Don Lemon-style arrests in the not-too-distant future.
Trump has literally weaponized the DOJ against journalists
President Donald Trump kicked off February with an ominous promise: Not only would his compromised Justice Department continue its unprecedented attacks on his…
www.dailykos.com
The liberal newsletter argues that while all of our presidents have had problems when dealing with the media, this is the first one (he did it in 2017) to claim that the media was doling out "fake news." He is also the first one to have a hand in who owns what media and, by virtue of his insides with large money media owners, a big say in what stories get reported by the mainstream media and how those stories are reported. And I'm afraid that we could well see more Don Lemon-style arrests in the not-too-distant future.
Arrested journalist Don Lemon urges US to ‘keep fighting’ for right to free press
Ex-CNN anchor arrested after covering anti-ICE protest says it was ‘very frightening’ to experience official overreach
Here is more on Don Lemon speaking on keeping the First amendment alive in the US.
Former federal prosecutor who quit amid Trump administration dispute now representing Don Lemon
Former CNN host Don Lemon has hired former federal prosecutor Joe Thompson for his legal defense. Lemon is one of nine people indicted for their alleged roles in disrupting a church service in Minnesota.
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Here is more on the Don Lemon fallout over the ICE protests.
Here is more on the Don Lemon Court Hearing.
www.nbcnews.com
Don Lemon expected to plead not guilty to charges arising from his protest coverage
The former CNN anchor was inside a church on Jan. 18 when protesters disrupted a service where a pastor who demonstrators alleged worked for ICE.
www.nbcnews.com
In my opinion, antagonistically confronting worshipers inside a church and interrupting a service is not an "interview". It is an invasion of the privacy and religious freedom rights of the members of that church.Arrested journalist Don Lemon urges US to ‘keep fighting’ for right to free press
Ex-CNN anchor arrested after covering anti-ICE protest says it was ‘very frightening’ to experience official overreachwww.theguardian.com
Here is more on Don Lemon speaking on keeping the First amendment alive in the US.
Had it been done outside the church on the public sidewalk or street, perfectly acceptable. Inside, not acceptable at all.
Those "big money" broadcasters are now small... and in rapid decline... compared with "new media". Many are losing money. Some that are part of bigger corporations, are a drag on margins of profitability and openly for sale.
Further, most of the "large money" radio and TV station owners are publicly owned, meaning that they are in mutual funds, 401-k plans and the like owned indirectly by you and I.
"Big money" when looked at closely, is just an aggregate of "small money".
I don't see that. Most streaming services are owned by big money broadcasters outside of Spotify and those all have very niche shows compared to big media.
I said "...most of the 'large money' radio and TV stations are publicly owned and small by comparison with newer media services. Sirius/XM is independent of any broadcaster, as is the audio service of Apple.
"Spotify is a publicly traded company (NYSE: SPOT) mainly owned by institutional investors, with co-founder Daniel Ek retaining significant control." It has no broadcast division.
Likewise, YouTube is owned by Alphabet, no radio station affiliation.
If by "big media" you mean ABC, CBS and NBC, note that those all sold their radio stations in the now-distant past.
Since we are talking about streaming, we need to clarify if you mean both audio alone or audio plus video. In the "audio alone" we have only one station owner trying to take a place in streaming, iHeart. And they have more debt than their net worth; not a good definition of "big money". Note that "digital" is only about 25% of their revenue, and podcasts are over 40% of that digital revenue. The other digital revenue comes from ads on the streams of their OTA radio stations, so pure digital with no OTA radio is less than 15% of their gross income.
And look at the share price of iHeart YTD
Can you imagine if this happened at a mosque during Ramadan?
Sometimes getting arrested is good for business:
barrettmedia.com
He has more subscribers now than he had viewers when he was on CNN.
Don Lemon Sees 73% Increase in Substack Subcribers Following Arrest
Furthermore, Lemon has added an additional 140,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.
barrettmedia.com
He has more subscribers now than he had viewers when he was on CNN.
Exactly. Almost like this was the plan he whole time...
The president isn't the only one who can turn adversity into a positive. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Especially nowadays....
I once met a person who referred to the president as "Teflon Don," and it makes perfect sense to me – virtually any bad news or controversy that would destroy most ordinary people seems to just harmlessly slide right off of him!
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The Teflon tag was originally applied to John Gotti, the Mafia boss who kept evading the law.
Perhaps that explains why Jeffrey Toobin masturbated on a Zoom video chat between members of the New Yorker and WNYC in 2020.
New YorkCNN Business —
Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as the network’s chief legal analyst on Thursday, eight months after he exposed himself during a Zoom call with colleagues at The New Yorker.
Toobin was interviewed by anchor Alisyn Camerota on “CNN Newsroom” about that incident, and about recent legal news.
“I feel like we should address what’s happened in the months since we’ve seen you,” Camerota said. She summarized the situation and said, “To quote Jay Leno, ‘What the hell were you thinking?’”
Toobin described himself as a “flawed human being who makes mistakes” and said his conduct was “deeply moronic and indefensible.”
He added, “I didn’t think other people could see me,” but he admitted that was no defense.
In the interview, Toobin expressed apologies to his wife and family, to the people who were on the Zoom call that day, and to his colleagues.
“And I’m sorry to the people who read my work and who watched me on CNN who thought I was a better person than this. And so, you know, I got a lot to rebuild, but I feel very privileged and very lucky that I’m going to be able to try to do that,” he said.
Toobin said he has spent his “miserable months” off-air “trying to be a better person.”
He mentioned “therapy;” public service like working a food bank; and a forthcoming book about the Oklahoma City bombing.
“I am trying to become the kind of person that people can trust again,” he said.
Going forward, Toobin will be back on CNN regularly in his chief legal analyst role, a spokesman confirmed. Toobin said he was “incredibly grateful” to continue working at the network.
Toobin was sidelined last October after what happened on the Zoom call became public.
People familiar with the matter said that Toobin exposed himself when he began masturbating during the Zoom, apparently as part of a different video call. The people said that they did not believe he intended his colleagues to witness it.
When Vice heard about the incident and reported it, Toobin admitted that he made an “embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.”
The New Yorker suspended Toobin and fired him a month later, after its internal investigation had been completed.
Toobin said that The New Yorker did not find any other forms of misconduct by him during its probe of his 27 years at the magazine.
“I was told very specifically by the people involved that they looked at my entire career … and found there had been no complaints about me,” Toobin said. “No issues. … It was just this incident.”
Toobin said that he believed The New Yorker’s decision to fire him was “excessive punishment.”
“But look,” he added, “that’s why they don’t ask the criminal to be the judge in his own case.”
A spokesperson for The New Yorker declined to comment.
CNN took a different approach from The New Yorker’s. The network said at the time that Toobin had asked for some time off “while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.” This turned into a leave of absence without any clear sign of whether he’d ultimately return.
Toobin’s viewers occasionally inquired about whether he’d be back on the air, and neither he nor CNN commented.
Some anchors and hosts at CNN also expressed a desire to have Toobin back on their shows, since he has been a leading legal voice on television for decades.
Toobin acknowledged Thursday that not everyone would welcome seeing him back on air.
“I live in the world. I know social media, what the reactions are likely to be,” he said. “I hope they will at least be mixed.”
We really don't need to go through this again.
Sometimes getting arrested is good for business:
Don Lemon Sees 73% Increase in Substack Subcribers Following Arrest
Furthermore, Lemon has added an additional 140,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.
He has more subscribers now than he had viewers when he was on CNN.
If you believe that Mr. Lemon planned to get himself arrested by ICE for reporting on a protest inside a church and interviewing its pastor in order to increase traffic to his Youtube channel and websites, then, as George Straight would say, I've got some ocean front property in Arizona that I'll sell for pennies on the dollar.