CNN Cancels Don Lemon’s Primetime Information Present

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The shakeup at CNN continues. Don Lemon’s primetime CNN present has been canceled.

Based on reports, the previous “Don Lemon Tonight” host will transfer from primetime nights to an obscure morning present later this 12 months.

Lemon reportedly sobbed loudly when he heard his primetime present was being canceled.

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Lemon was the one overtly homosexual Black anchorman with a primetime information present on CNN.

“The final eight years have been an unbelievable trip,” Lemon said after he was knowledgeable of his new gig.

“I’ve had the chance to work with top-of-the-line present groups within the enterprise, however it is time to shake issues up.”

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Lemon, 56, will join CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins on a revamped morning present that may substitute the struggling “New Day.”

He can even take a pay minimize, in accordance with a information supply.

Don Lemon started his journalistic profession as an assistant on Channel 5 in New York Metropolis.

CNN, based mostly right here in Atlanta, was acquired by Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this 12 months.

Discovery CEO David Zaslav instantly introduced he wished CNN to return to unbiased information. That announcement despatched shockwaves by way of the community’s left-wing liberal workers.

CNN employed Chris Licht to switch CEO Jeff Zucker who resigned in February. A number of extra high executives have adopted Zucker out the door.

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Brian Stelter, who helped to run CNN into the bottom, was fired final month. Stelter is now teaching a course at Harvard.

Along with Stelter, all the workers of his “Dependable Sources” CNN present was laid off and the present was canceled.