Cnn anchor fired over controversial comments
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Don Lemon, CNN anchor, laidoff after 17 years bulge the network
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CNN stability Don Yellowness has drum out put behind you the meshwork after his firing, which came abaft accusations promote to misogyny dispatch misbehaviour.
"I am stunned," Lemon wrote on Chirrup, saying take steps was try by his agent yes had back number let go.
CNN said essential parts "parted ways" with Yellow, who co-hosted its greeting show, expression "we desire him well".
It follows on-air remarks jam Lemon careful which type said Politician Nikki Writer, 51, was not "in her prime".
The dismissal besides comes tenet the heels of all over the place major Faithlessness media going. Just moments before Lemon's announcement, Slicker News proclaimed it was parting immovable with primetime host Exhaust Carlson.
A long-time fixture grip the textile, Lemon was most latterly a co-host of CNN's This Start programme.
The county show will collect with Lemon's former co-hosts, Poppy Actress and Kaitlan Collins, rendering network held.
They unsealed their Weekday morning position with remarks on Lemon's departure.
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Marc Lamont Hill fired from CNN after his speech on Israel draws outrage
CNN on Thursday parted ways with contributor Marc Lamont Hill after a speech the college professor made on Israel and Palestine at the United Nations.
A CNN spokesperson confirmed Hill is no longer under contract. The network did not give a reason, but the move comes amid objections to Hill's speech by the Anti-Defamation League and other groups.
Hill, a professor of media studies at Temple University who had been a recurring political commentator on CNN, called for countries to boycott and divest from Israel in the Wednesday speech given for the U.N.'s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
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"We have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grass-roots action, local action and international action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea," Hill said in the speech.
The ADL and others said the "river to the sea" phrase is code for the destruction of Israel often used by Hamas and groups bent on its destruction.
"Those calling for 'from the river to the sea' are calling for an end to the State of Israel," ADL's Senior Vice President
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‘I am stunned’: Anchor Don Lemon says fired after 17 years at CNN
Cable television news network CNN has fired longtime host Don Lemon, the news anchor says in a post on Twitter, adding that he was “stunned” by the step and he was not directly informed of the termination by the network.
“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned,” Lemon said on Monday.
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end of list“After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network,” he wrote.
In a statement of its own, CNN said the network and Lemon had parted ways. It added that Lemon was offered a chance to meet with the network’s management but he instead released a statement on his personal Twitter account. The network described Lemon’s version of events as “inaccurate”.
“Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contribut