News of “The Don Lemon Show” comes nine months after CNN fired the host in what he claimed was an unexpected move.
In an exclusive post-CNN interview in July with news affiliate ABC24, Lemon addressed his departure, saying he has an obligation as a journalist to tell the truth, stand up for what is right, and “abide by the promises of the Constitution,” People reported.
Lemon also said he doesn’t support “platforming liars and bigots and insurrectionists and election deniers, and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth, people who are fighting for what’s right” and abiding by long-held law.
That kind of reporting, he declared, goes against his values as a journalist. Those values have brought him this far, knowing “that I am doing the right thing, that I am standing up and abiding by the Constitution,” Lemon said, according to People, “which my profession demands that I do because we are listed in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which is freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.”
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