Colbert, he did not seem to find anything funny in the subject. Lemon responded in turn on his show, though unlike Mr. Lemon’s look as “a high school track teacher who went for a run,” then stopped at a nice restaurant and was told he had to wear a jacket, so he “stole a jacket from an extra from “‘Guys and Dolls.’” Colbert, who generally wears a suit and tie on-air, described Mr. “How do you report the news in that outfit? How do you talk about tragedy wearing that? Because what could be more tragic than that look?” “I know they want to add some comedy to CNN, and this is hilarious,” Mr. Stephen Colbert called out the look, saying he always watched the CNN show but was “a little taken aback” because of what Mr. The occasion, back then, was his decision to wear a hoodie with a suit jacket while on the air, which proved such an unexpected sartorial choice for an anchorman that it went viral, creating its own mini-news cycle. It was only in late January that he went on something of a spiel saying he understood what it was like to be a woman and be judged on appearances, because the same thing had happened to him.
Lemon has himself experienced criticism because of his appearance and pushed back, vocally, less than a month before his dismissal of Ms. Lemon, of all people, should have known better.Īfter all, Mr. Bryan had zero involvement in the editorial operations of Gawker,” a BDG spokesperson emailed Confider.From a New York Times story by Vanessa Friedman headlined “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”:ĭon Lemon, a co-host of “CNN This Morning,” is still off the air, four days after apologizing on Twitter and internally for describing Nikki Haley on the show last Thursday as “past her prime.” His comment, while discussing her presidential bid, seemed to refer implicitly to the Republican candidate’s appearance and age in a derogatory and retrograde way, setting off a public firestorm that is still reverberating. “Around the time of launch, Bryan provided to Josh Topolsky a list of notable people with whom he or the company had significant financial ties in case it needed to be disclosed. The unionized staffers all posted the same message into the BDG general channel only for management to delete all their messages and disable their chat permissions. Like what you’re reading? Subscribe to the Confider newsletter here and have The Daily Beast media team’s stellar reporting sent straight to your inbox every Monday night.Įven after Gawker’s demise, Goldberg has faces more issues, including with Bustle Digital Group’s union, which for two years has been bargaining its first contract and on Monday changed its members’ Slack avatars to the union logo and set their names to “No Layoffs, Fair Contract Now.” Gawker’s freelance budget was subsequently slashed, effectively kneecapping the site, according to sources, and the priority turned to creating content that would attract advertisers. Insiders said that things started going south at Gawker 2.0 following the May 2022 exit of chief content officer Joshua Topolsky, who had acted as a firewall between the edit and business sides of the site. Furthermore, our sources said, Goldberg gave edicts for the site to steer clear of politics and avoid appearing “woke.”
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