CNN boss Chris Licht's new morning show hit a wall with the firing of Don Lemon, the program's embattled co-host who exited amid a flurry of controversies.
"If he could have harnessed the old Don Lemon - the Lemon that existed for years at CNN before Trump took office - perhaps that could have worked. But the reality is that Don Lemon is gone for good, and perhaps that will work to his benefit in whatever he does next, in some job that allows him to embrace his outright liberal opinion positioning," Krakauer told Fox News Digital.
DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall similarly referred to CNN as a"leaking ship" and that throwing Lemon overboard"makes sense for CNN from a ratings standpoint" as well as Licht's effort to reinvent the network. He told Fox News Digital that Licht had no choice but to show Lemon the door after his recent controversies, from hisbeing past her"prime" to a Variety story alleging past misogynistic behavior in the workplace.
"Either you are not provocative enough to get the ratings and keep your seat or you have a bad day and push the limits in ways some people don’t like and then the cancel culture comes knocking," Breuer told Fox News Digital.
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