{"id":60798,"date":"2023-04-24T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/24\/cnn-fires-host-don-lemon\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:40:00","slug":"cnn-fires-host-don-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/24\/cnn-fires-host-don-lemon\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Fires Host Don Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cable television network CNN has fired longtime host Don Lemon, the news anchor said in a post on Twitter on Monday, adding he was \u201cstunned\u201d by the step and that he was not directly informed of the termination by the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned,\u201d Lemon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement of its own, CNN said the network and Lemon had parted ways.<\/p>\n<p>Neither statement gave a reason for Lemon\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Cable television network CNN has fired longtime host Don Lemon, the news anchor said in a post on Twitter on Monday, adding he was \u201cstunned\u201d by the step and that he was not directly informed of the termination by the network. \u201cI was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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