Don Lemon isn’t holding back about his split from CNN—and his disdain for the constraints of traditional media. During a conversation with Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, the former primetime anchor said he’s found freedom—and a bigger audience—in going solo. “They don’t like us big mouth, sort of middle or left-leaning people,” Lemon said of big TV networks and their executives. “They just find ways to get rid of us for little things.”
(They just sweep us away. It’s relaxing for them,“ added Bee, whose show Full Frontal navigated the response to similarly unfiltered commentary.)
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