Don Lemon Ends Show Early After Guest Calls Story 'Fake News'

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

CNN’s Don Lemon abruptly ended the last segment of his show Friday night after one commentator continued to refer to a story as “fake news.”

Lemon was moderating a discussion of President Donald Trump’s frequent trips away from the White House, and the costs to taxpayers they incur. Paris Dennard, a former staffer in the George W. Bush administration and now a political analyst and commentator, called the story “fake news”

“The President is not breaking any laws, and he’s not doing anything,” Dennard said.

Lemon stopped him. “Fake news is when you put out a story to intentionally deceive someone and you know that it is wrong.” He added: “This story that we’re doing right now is not to intentionally deceive anyone. We are simply talking about the cost to keep a President safe.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/don-lemon-ends-show-fake-news

[TrekLuver]

1. I had to watch Lemmon's look of disgust at the end there a second time.

[Cha]

35. He was brilliant.. his explanation.. everything!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Yep, time to start cutting mikes...

When RW professional gaslighters try to fillibuster segments, they need to be cut off.

[greymattermom]

3. How about a return of the Gong.

On the second outright like, the host can push a button that sounds a gong and cut off the mike.

[wordpix]

25. the Trumpist will be slapped down for not shouting over Don Lemon

That's what R's are told to do, or so it seems from how they handle themselves.

[Cha]

36. This trump tried.. "fake news.. in his opinion.." Lemon cut him off. lol

[Grassy Knoll]

4. That Needed A Big Red X, Like On The Family Feud

[narnian60]

12. +1

[csziggy]

34. Or get gonged like on The Gong Show!

[spanone]

5. Thank you Mr. Lemon.

[True Dough]

6. Fake news is REAL!

Remember?

[NurseJackie]

7. One of the best things I've seen in a long time.

And who IS that jerk anyway? Never heard of him... notta peep... whats his claim to fame? Why does anyone care what he thinks anyway?

[oasis]

10. Paris Dennard. A GOP lightweight who the Trumpoids trot out every

now and then because.......

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Perfect. Now do that more often.

I'm speaking to all these opinion show hosts. Don't let the guests get away with lying. Stop them, right now, on the spot.

[oasis]

9. "Is Paris burning?"

[NurseJackie]

11. He was just full of ... well ... "attitude". He seemed to be very pleased with himself. Except...

... he really had NO reason to be. #AndThatsJustSad

[George II]

13. Anyone see AM Joy this morning with that wacko from Newsmax? He just would NOT shut up....

....she finally did the same thing, declared that segment over.

These people are programmed to spout uncontrollably without making any sense.

I think Kellyanne Conway conducts webinars on that technique.

[NurseJackie]

14. It makes this type of "reporting" or "analysis" or "discussion" absolutely worthless!

It's just a big game of cross-talk and over-talk and shouting down in which the LOUDEST (not necessarily the smartest) ends up being the "winner" in the eyes of the unsophisticated audience.

I've totally given up on all US-based television news sources (except occasionally PBS NewsHour)

I enjoy watching BBC World News (on PBS) and SkyNews and ReutersTV (streaming Roku).

When watching US-based news, it's pretty amazing to realize how LITTLE coverage or importance is given to the rest of the events happening around the world.

When watching non-US news programmes ... the reporting is detailed and not "dumbed-down". It's as though the reporter (producers) are already expecting to be talking to an audience with an attention span longer than a three year old, and basic intelligence that exceeds a 12 year old.

It's also interesting to get an unfiltered view of what the rest of the world actually thinks of Trump and our nation in general. It's a bit refreshing to hear honest reporting and frank editorials that don't feel as though they must oblige the easily offended jingoists by carefully tempering their words to the point where they lose all meaning.

Or... instead of going on and on, I could have just said US tv/cable news SUCKS compared to what you can get outside the US.

[jayschool2013]

18. Read

Read knowledge-based journalism.
[link:https://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/beyond-carnegie-knightknowledge-journalism|

[NurseJackie]

29. Excellent!! Thank you for sharing that!!

https://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/beyond-carnegie-knightknowledge-journalism

Excerpt:

Journalism can lead us astray, argues Harvard professor Tom Patterson in his book, “Informing the News.” He cites a University of Maryland study on what Americans knew about 11 issues, from health care reform to climate change. For some news consumers, “higher levels of exposure increased misinformation.” On eight of the 11 issues in the study, more than 40 percent of the consumers were misinformed. On six issues, regular news consumers knew only what everyone else knew. On health care, news consumers knew less than what others knew.

Patterson makes a strong case that modern journalism often fails to communicate complexity. The book, an offshoot of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education, examines journalism that fails to provide meaningful context, sometimes by giving equal weight to fact and opinion, other times by substituting infotainment for real news, still other times by allowing anecdote to trump trend.

He’s neck-deep in the problems of modern journalism, with chapters titled “The Information Problem,” “The Source Problem,” “The Knowledge Problem,” “The Education Problem,” “The Audience Problem” and “The Democracy Problem.” The problems add up to stories throughout history that have been horribly wrong, from the start of the Spanish-American War (Spain probably didn’t sink the U.S.S. Maine) to escalating crime in the early ’90s (it didn’t happen), from the prevalence of voter fraud (it isn’t a problem) to those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (they did not exist).

The answer to mass misinformation, Patterson says, is “knowledge-based journalism.” In the 1980s, this was called “specialty reporting.” Before the digital age disrupted this model, journalists at university-based training programs learned everything from nuclear power to brain science. It was a way to try to provide the context the Hutchins Commission called for in the 1950s, the meaning that Walter Lippmann wanted in the 1920s. Yes, journalism should have more knowledge. The question, then and now, is how?

[SunSeeker]

17. Yup. And Joy called him on his bullshit non sequiturs.

Wish more journalists did.

[WinkyDink]

20. Hee...She called him "Sweetie" at one point! She IS a Joy!

[SunSeeker]

22. No, that was one of her guests. She is way too professional to do that. nt

[WinkyDink]

26. You're correct. It was one of the guests. But I don't think it would have been unprofessional! JD

was being an evil "Push the 'Fake News' Theme" creep!

[SunSeeker]

32. Sure, but a host shouldn't refer to a guest like, unless he really was her "sweetie."

[TrekLuver]

19. Yes I saw that...it's time to start bringing down the hammer.

[saidsimplesimon]

30. George

Do you mean J.D. Hayworth? The blowhard from Arizona that Senator McCain served the sword? Joy is a genius. It is a shame her team must give any air time to make a point.

[George II]

33. Yes, that's the guy. He acted like he was hosting his own show instead of being a guest.

She just shook her head a few times and finally cut it off.

[dawnie51]

15. This is the MO....

just keep talking, never pause for even a second. Talk over, around and through anyone else. That Milos jerk on Bill Maher last night, same thing. Bill told him several times to shut up, because he absolutely refused to let anyone, even the Repub jerk Kingston, speak at all. We need more of this type of action from media.

[dchill]

16. K&R.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

21. Networks need to start blacklisting every surrogate who tries to say it's fake news

Cut them off and then don't let them back on again. Treat them like the liars they are just like Don Lemon did in this case.

[WinkyDink]

23. So! NOW they are saying "Fake news" to mean "We want you to ignore this fact. OKAY?!"

[wordpix]

24. "stop it with that stupid talking point that is a fake news story"

Then the Trumpist says, "Don this is a fake news story."

Glad Don Lemon stood up.

[AgadorSparticus]

27. What they should have is a timer. Give them 60 seconds to answer. That's it.

And then cut their mic. This should be the format of the show. They can even call it 60seconds. They don't get to cheat. It will have a game show feel with the timer present for everyone to see.

[forgotmylogin]

28. That was perfect.

The description made it sound like Lemon stormed off, but he explained that the story they were discussing was not "fake news", the respondent said it again, and he cut him off and ended the segment.

We can call this "Conway's Law". If you're participating in a segment you think is fake, you deserve to be shut down.

[Jim Beard]

31. Good for Don BUT........

CNN is about to televise another free Trump speech, the same as it did to help him win the primary. CNN has given him more free time than anyone I know.

[Blue_Roses]

37. Wow! Way to go Don!