From the Rose Law Group Reporter Growlery
By Phil Riske, managing editor
The deterioration of journalistic standards — especially in cable television news — most especially with CNN— sickens me.
As a glaring example. a CNN reporter and anchor with an ego as large as Donald Trump and driven by the network’s doctrine of run-a-story-until- there’s- nothing-left-but-the-peel turned into a self-appointed expert advisor on racism by cop.
Don Lemon has long been the target of criticism for everything from insisting sorbet is pronounces sor-BET to asking an aviation official, “Could it be a black hole that sucked up that jet?” during coverage of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
During a discussion Thursday about the Sarah Bland arrest in Texas for failing to signal a turn in her vehicle and her death in jail three days later, CNN called on Lemon as a source, rather than a reporter. He launched a diatribe directed at his fellow blacks about how they should act if pulled over by a law enforcement officer.
Another guest tried to take Lemon on, but he would not let her speak, interrupting her at every turn. It was a shameful display of TV at its worst.
Unless it was that time Lemon told a rape victim she could’ve easily shut down the alleged rape by biting Bill Cosby’s penis.
