MUST VIEWING: CNN’s Don Lemon has done what to this former fulltime journalist (me) is the definitive take on the sad – -and hopefully not trend-setting — saga of Neil Monro, The Daily Caller reporter who interrupted President Barack Obama in the middle of an official statement and of his boss Tucker Carlson, a one-time but no longer serious and respected up and coming conservative pundit who clearly is not only enabling Munro but cheering him on (and even suggesting he deserves a raise).
Lemon gets across the difference between truly professional journalists of all political persuasions and Munro and Carlson, who are several categories below them. Bravo, Don Lemon.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.