{"id":1385441,"date":"2022-03-17T07:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385441"},"modified":"2022-03-17T07:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:36:58","slug":"blood-brothers-no-more-chris-cuomo-turns-on-don-lemon-in-cnn-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-brothers-no-more-chris-cuomo-turns-on-don-lemon-in-cnn-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Brothers No More: Chris Cuomo Turns On Don Lemon In CNN Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblood-brothers-no-more-chris-cuomo-turns-on-don-lemon-in-cnn-complaint%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/pjimage-2-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cuomo-CNN-Arbitration-Demand-1.pdf\">demand for arbitration<\/a> targeting CNN, former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who had a history of blowing kisses toward fellow CNN anchor Don Lemon as they repeatedly told each other, \u201cI love you, brother,\u201d turned on Lemon as well as CNN anchor Jake Tapper, saying they had breached \u201ctraditional journalistic standards.\u201d Cuomo also accused Tapper of falsely claiming Cuomo had \u201cthreatened\u201d former CNN chief Jeff Zucker and Lemon had falsely claimed \u201cthat Cuomo had been \u2018found to break with those journalistic standards and then [was] paid handsomely for it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demand for arbitration states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Cuomo had no reason to believe that his assistance to Gov. Cuomo was inconsistent with CNN\u2019s or Turner\u2019s policies nor its expectations, especially given the fact that Zucker and Gollust had encouraged him to do so and had themselves provided advice to Gov. Cuomo. In fact, CNN fostered a culture in which the network\u2019s standards and practices were a constantly moving target, modified at CNN executives\u2019 discretion as they saw fit., and that culture began at the top with Zucker and Gollust. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As long as Zucker and Gollust believed CNN\u2019s ratings would benefit, they were more than willing to disregard breaches of traditional journalistic standards by CNN personalities, such as Don Lemon and Jake Tapper, or even to engage in blatant breaches of journalistic ethics themselves. There is no better example of this than Zucker and Gollust making an exception to the CNN rule to direct Cuomo to interview his brother several times over the course of three months.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBefore Cuomo was terminated, Zucker at first claimed that he had been unaware of Cuomo\u2019s discussions with Gov. Cuomo\u2019s aides, when Zucker had done the same thing himself,\u201d the demand further asserts. \u201cAfter Cuomo\u2019s termination, Zucker claimed that Cuomo had broken his word and that Cuomo misrepresented the extent of his support for his brother. Other CNN staff joined in the calculated campaign to smear Cuomo and destroy his reputation. Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor, publicly assailed Cuomo\u2019s ethics as a journalist and falsely claimed that Cuomo \u201cthreatened\u201d Zucker. Don Lemon, another CNN anchor, falsely claimed that Cuomo had been \u201cfound to break with those journalistic standards and then [was] paid handsomely for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"denied:applewebdata:\/\/9a6c0c65-add8-4e9b-ae50-3e5891f17352\/v\">reported<\/a> in February:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>CNN host Don Lemon advised against paying former host Chris Cuomo a multimillion-dollar severance package, according to multiple sources that have heard a recording of the conversation. During a video conference on Monday, Lemon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cnn-anchors-press-warnermedia-ceo-for-details-on-jeff-zuckers-resignation-11644260004\">warned<\/a>\u00a0WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar about the negative impact paying Cuomo millions of dollars in severance pay after allegations that Cuomo breached journalist ethics could create at the network, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDid you think about what message it sends to the journalists in the company and also to the larger public that someone can be found to break with those journalistic standards and then get paid handsomely for it?\u201d Lemon reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/kilar-comes-back-for-more\/\">asked<\/a>. \u201cAnd what is to stop the next person from doing the same thing, and possibly getting compensated for it, by saying, \u2018Hey I\u2019m going to spread rumors if you don\u2019t give me this amount of money\u2019?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the good old days, CNN offered a podcast titled \u201cThe Handoff,\u201d which boasted, \u201cThe love viewers witness between CNN\u2019s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo in the handoff between their shows each night is real. Now they\u2019re stepping out from behind the anchor desk for a weekly conversation where nothing is off limits. With no broadcast clock to hold them back, Chris and Don talk politics and get personal.\u201d The last podcast in the series was released in late November 2021, the month before Cuomo was fired.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a demand for arbitration targeting CNN, former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who had a history of blowing kisses toward fellow CNN anchor Don Lemon as they repeatedly told each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}