{"id":1644813,"date":"2022-09-16T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1644813"},"modified":"2022-09-16T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T03:14:44","slug":"don-lemon-loses-prime-time-role-in-latest-cnn-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-loses-prime-time-role-in-latest-cnn-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon Loses Prime-Time Role in Latest CNN Shake-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fdon-lemon-loses-prime-time-role-in-latest-cnn-shake-up%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=1644813&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><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">C<\/span>NN host Don Lemon will move to mornings later this year, ending his prime-time show <i>Don Lemon Tonight<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Lemon will join hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/15\/media\/cnn-morning-show\/index.html\">debuting a new morning show<\/a>, replacing current <i>New Day<\/i> hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar, according to a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/15\/don-lemon-poppy-harlow-kaitlan-collins-cnn-morning-show\/\">press release<\/a> by CNN. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-report\">BRIAN STELTER&#8217;S CNN SHOW RELIABLE SOURCES CANCELED BY NETWORK<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The move, announced Thursday, is the network&#8217;s biggest programming shake-up since CNN executive Chris Licht took his position in May. <\/p>\n<p>Licht said Lemon, Collins, and Harlow are each &#8220;uniquely intelligent, reliable, and compelling,&#8221; which will make for a &#8220;refreshing&#8221; way to begin the morning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no stronger combination of talent than Don, Poppy, and Kaitlan to deliver on our promise of a game-changing morning news program,&#8221; Licht said in the press release. <\/p>\n<p>Lemon said in a statement that the last eight years have been &#8220;an incredible ride.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to work with one of the best show teams in the business, but it&#8217;s time to shake things up. &#8230; I was honestly floored when Chris Licht asked me to do this, and I&#8217;m honored by his belief in me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Set your alarms folks because we&#8217;re going to have a lot of fun.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Changes to CNN&#8217;s programming have been frequent for the last few months. John Harwood <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/john-harwood-latest-in-exodus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left his position<\/a> as CNN&#8217;s White House correspondent at the beginning of September. CNN <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled<\/a> Brian Stelter&#8217;s <i>Reliable Sources <\/i>show in mid-August and let Stelter go after he had worked there since 2013. CNN legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin also <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/jeffrey-toobin-exits-cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left the network<\/a> in early August after 20 years. <\/p>\n<p>CNN has come <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/3634717-changes-spark-chatter-of-cnn-is-shift-from-left-to-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under scrutiny<\/a> lately for anchors&#8217; sudden shifts in tone when discussing President Joe Biden or becoming less critical of former President Donald Trump and right-leaning media, such as Fox News. <\/p>\n<p>Keilar recently tweeted with disapproval over Biden&#8217;s use of a dark-red background and U.S. Marines during his <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/watch-live-president-biden-delivers-soul-nation-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prime-time speech<\/a> last week. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetUrl\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whatever you think of this speech the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that. It\u2019s wrong when Democrats do it. It\u2019s wrong when Republicans do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brikeilarcnn\/status\/1565496191042949123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a>\n              <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several current and former CNN employees told the<i> Washington Post <\/i>that they are interpreting the mass employee exodus and programming changes as a sign that Licht is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/09\/02\/john-harwood-cnn-chris-licht-stelter-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving the network<\/a> to present a &#8220;new, ideologically neutral CNN.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>However, CNN wrote in a statement to the <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/3634717-changes-spark-chatter-of-cnn-is-shift-from-left-to-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hill<\/a> <\/i>last week denying that the changing atmosphere is pulling the network to a left, right, or centrist position. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are entirely focused on our core strength and mission \u2014 objective journalism, presented in a fair and compelling way,&#8221; CNN said. &#8220;We will continue to acknowledge different worldviews and experiences. We will always stand up for democracy and call out lies \u2014 regardless of their origin. That is not centrism, that is journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN host Don Lemon will move to mornings later this year, ending his prime-time show Don Lemon Tonight. 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