It's judgment day: Shocking exits of Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, and Jeff Shell rock the TV industry
. But Carlson's stature makes a clear argument that it's not business as usual at Fox News. If Carlson could be so quickly jettisoned, what other changes might happen at the network?saying it had agreed to"part ways" with Carlson. NBCU didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Don Lemon posted a screenshot on Twitter"I would have thought that someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly," he wrote.
Media watchers had been primed for a Lemon exit for weeks. The embattled host had been pulled off"CNN This Morning" for two days in February after saying Nikki Haley wasn't a viable presidential candidate because she wasn't"in her prime." That wasthat alleged Lemon had a history of misogynistic behavior toward coworkers.
Lemon's ouster comes as CNN CEO Chris Licht has sought to position the network as less partisan and remake its coverage in a post-Jeff Zucker world. Change has been the order of the day at CNN in recent months. But the dumping of Carlson and Lemon still indicates how willing cable networks are in this moment to part with stars they might consider a risk to the larger organization., which will number in the thousands.
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