{"id":7642,"date":"2014-12-27T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2014-12-27T19:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:27:14","slug":"yep-lemons-been-a-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"Yep, Lemon's been a lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Don Lemon hasn’t had a distinguished year in front of the CNN news camera.<\/p>\n

Although I don’t like critiquing media “performances,” Lemon’s string of gaffes in 2014 is worth a brief comment.<\/p>\n

Columbia Journalism Review has slung a barb at Lemon, one of CNN’s go-go guys, for his amazing string of terrible interviews. He made CJR’s “worst journalism” list for 2014.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/12\/27\/cjr-dart-award-rolling-stone\/20940309\/<\/p>\n

They’ve made news in ways Lemon, or his bosses at CNN, ever would want.<\/p>\n

He wondered aloud whether Malaysian Air Flight 370 vanished into a “black hole,” only to be reminded by the expert to whom he asked the question that a black hole would swallow the entire planet.<\/p>\n

During the Bill Cosby controversy involving allegations of sexual assault, Lemon said on the air that there are ways to avoid performing oral sex, such as using one’s teeth.<\/p>\n

While reporting from Ferguson, Mo., during the rioting in the wake of the grand jury decision to no-bill the officer who shot Michael Brown, Lemon reported he could “smell marijuana in the air,” as if that had any significance.<\/p>\n

Good journalism requires an element of trust that must be built between the reporter and his audience, whether they’re readers or TV viewers.<\/p>\n

Don Lemon has squandered a good bit of that trust.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope the young man repairs it in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Don Lemon hasn’t had a distinguished year in front of the CNN news camera. Although I don’t like critiquing media “performances,” Lemon’s string of gaffes in 2014 is worth a brief comment. Columbia Journalism Review has slung a barb at Lemon, one of CNN’s go-go guys, for his amazing string of terrible interviews. He made … Continue reading Yep, Lemon's been a lemon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[632,1043,1069,1420,1717,3014,4235],"class_list":["post-7642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bill-cosby","tag-cnn","tag-columbia-journalism-review","tag-don-lemon","tag-ferguson","tag-mh370","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}