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John Pritchett: Benched

CNN's Don Lemon and Fox News' Tucker Carlson were both abruptly fired from their respective networks Monday, and for a variety of reasons that are still unfolding.

By John Pritchett

April 30, 2023 · 1 min read

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John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

CNN’s Don Lemon and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson were both abruptly fired from their respective networks Monday, and for a variety of reasons that are still unfolding.

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About the Author

John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

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Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and now Tucker. He too will be replaced and forgotten.

moc · 7 months ago

Their "brand" if you will was able to carry both of them to stardom in their respective networks. But when you become that big, and the fact is that your persona you have created is more trouble than is worth it (esp. for Carlson, whose mouth forced his bosses to write a $800 million check to cover what it was saying) then the value of the one person, or thing, is diminished quite a bit. For Lemon, the problems of his reign will come back to bite CNN for years to come in personnel lawsuits against it and Lemon himself. When you become too much to deal with, even if your that popular, you are still very very very dispensable.

Kana_Hawaii · 7 months ago

Get your chuckles in while you can, Lemon and Carlson both are worth multi millions, Carlson showed up wealthy.They're both are off the air, but still are connected by their contract agreements until severances are finalized. Both hired the best media lawyer in the business. Carlson's popularity will just make him bigger and give him an endless worldwide network utilizing SpaceX’s StarLink network thats in the works, rumor has it Apple already has made a deal with Elon Musk.

Konarandy · 7 months ago

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