Longtime cable news anchors Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon ousted on same day
The two departures come amid lawsuits and allegations of misogyny.
Don Lemon was fired by CNN on Monday, minutes after Fox News announced it had parted ways with Tucker Carlson. Carlson’s exit from Fox News comes nearly a week after the cable news network settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. Meanwhile, Lemon recently came under fire for making sexist and ageist remarks on air.
Reset discusses the shakeup in cable news and what it means for where the industry is headed.
GUESTS: Jim Warren, executive editor of NewsGuard
Michael Spikes, lecturer and program director at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
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Longtime cable news anchors Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon ousted on same day
The two departures come amid lawsuits and allegations of misogyny.
Don Lemon was fired by CNN on Monday, minutes after Fox News announced it had parted ways with Tucker Carlson. Carlson’s exit from Fox News comes nearly a week after the cable news network settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. Meanwhile, Lemon recently came under fire for making sexist and ageist remarks on air.
Reset discusses the shakeup in cable news and what it means for where the industry is headed.
GUESTS: Jim Warren, executive editor of NewsGuard
Michael Spikes, lecturer and program director at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism