Hey, it's Jennifer Jones. Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M
six forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Tuesdays aren't so
bad when they start with Jennifer Jones Late. Here she is with your morning
wake up call. What exactly do I call breaking news that you knew was
coming? Because it drives me nuts when I see the cable news networks due
breaking news followed by the word soon. If you guys know that breaking news
is on the way, it's not breaking news, especially because you've been talking
about it, it drives me insane. So I have breaking news that you
knew was coming that was announced last week that I'm not gonna say it soon.
It's right now. President Biden announced he's running for reelection in twenty twenty
four. I know, I know, the shock might have you driving off
the road. Drives me crazy. It was like yesterday my favorite part of
the whole Tucker Carlson Don Lemon getting fired thing. This is CNN's headline that
said this justin CNN parts ways with Don Lemon. What you didn't know you
guys were parting ways with Don Lemon? What that might have been a class.
It was one I had to take a screenshot of because in our industry,
I went that that's one of the more embarrassing things I've ever seen.
But I they had to handle it some way, But not this justin like
you guys didn't freaking know. Come on now, some of those stories we're
watching on this Tuesday morning, the La County Sheriff's Department may have to release
photos and personal information on thousands of deputies, law enforcement leaders in Orange County
of slam criminal justice reform efforts and weak punishments for fentyl dealers. Coming up
at five oh five, we're going to talk with ABC's Louie Martinez. All
right, So the good news is we got the embassy in Sudan evacuated.
That was a quick clean operation. Those helicopters were on the ground for less
than an hour getting those people out of there. What about the thousands of
other US American citizens that remain in Sudan? What happens to them? How
do they get out? So we'll find out when we talk with Louie in
just a second. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. The La County Sheriff's Department may have to
release photos and personal information on thousands of deputies. That's because of media outlet
has requested the data under a California public record request. The department wouldn't id
the outlet ters say why they needed the information, but did say the request
is similar to the one served on the LAPD. The LAPD recently released unredacted
photos of nine thousand officers, including those in undercover assignments. The request with
the Sheriff's Department excludes those who are undercover. A union representing deputies says it
has spoken with department leadership and thirty five subject matter experts to protect the rights
of the deputies. Steve Gregory King, if I law enforcement leaders in Orange
County of slam criminal justice reform efforts and weak punishments for finnel dealers, you
are all just liars. You lie to the public. OC Sheriff Don Barton
says state senators refused the law, warning dealers fatal fentnel overdoses could mean murder
charges, claiming this is going to disproportionately target those who are users, and
the legislation had nothing to do with users, only dealers. OCDA Todd Spitzer
slam the judge who gave a light punishment to a guy who fought to take
an officer's gun away. She said, isn't that what you signed up for
when you became a police officer? Literally was flabbergasted. Other speakers at the
annual Crime Victims event yesterday asked how much more should victim suffer? In Santa
Anna Corbin Carson k if I need. An off duty deputy with the Riverside
County Sheriff's Department has been killed in the crash while on his motorcycle. Deputy
Andrew Davidson collided with a car yesterday on Van Buren Boulevard near Garfield Street and
Riverside. The car's front passenger side has serious damage. Deputy Davidson, who
joined the department in March of last year, died at the hospital. The
driver of the car was treated for payne. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says
the new state report on crime reduction is nothing more than garbage in garbage out.
Last week, prison officials released a first ever report on the number of
felons re arrested after being released early under Prop fifty seven. The report looked
at a three year period from twenty seventeen. Bianco says the report has flawed
because it didn't account for those who were never caught, or for those people
too frustrated with the judicial system to actually report a crime. Brought fifty seven
past in twenty sixteen to offer early release for those convicted of non violent crimes.
Louis Martinez, Good morning. So how do we get the remaining Americans
in Sudan safely out of there? Big question? Gen. I think what
you're seeing from the administration is that they're favoring this land route out from Khartoum,
a six one hundred miles east to a port city and on the Red
Sea, and then they can make their way out from there. The US
says they're trying to facilitate the exit of Americans, So I think what they're
trying to do is put them in contact with other countries that might be flowing
in their own military assets to take people out. But they're trying to get
the word out that the land route is the most feasible way. And right
now what we're seeing is a new seventy two hours ceasefire that was negotiated by
Tony blank in our Secretary of State. It seems to be holding. There's
reports of isolated gunfire. But if it does hold for the next three days
through third day, then that's a good sign. And I think that's going
to afford a possibility for more Americans and maybe even other from other nationality to
get out inside of Sudan. You know, it's fascinating to me how drones
are being used to sort of monitor these convoys getting the Americans out, kind
of like having you know, a bird's eye view on them as they're traveling
out of there. And I think that's wonderful in the sense of it's almost
like they have an added protection. But what happens if that drone spots something
that's bad or wrong? Where do we go from there? Well, that's
a really good question, Jen, and I think that was actually posed yesterday
to depending on stup spokesman. He was asked are these drones armed? And
he kind of deflected the question, which I think kind of gave you the
answer right there. So I think the US is going to be prepared for
an eventuality. I mean, that's something that's called the rules of engagement,
and the US military really doesn't talk about that a lot in terms of specifics,
but they always say the US has the right self defense. So I
think when you see a scenario like that, yeah, it's great to have
these drones up there providing that surveillance capability, making sure that there is no
threat as these vehicles make their way to Port Sudan. Also worth noting that
there were drones flying above the US team over Cartoon as those three helicopters went
in order the weekend to take out one hundred or so embassy personnel. Well,
I you know, if I was one of the Americans in Sudan,
though, I'd be thinking to myself, any extra protection is wonderful. So
these drones have at it. So when it comes to then once they get
these convoys, they get these Americans to safety. I understand that there are
ships that have been positioned, US ships that can then take those evacuees somewhere
else. Well, not necessarily US ships. There are ferries there are We
know that the Saudi Navy has actually sent some ships to Portstudan. They're along
the red seat to take some people across into Jetta. The US Navy ship
themselves are on standby there was a destroyer that happened to be in the southern
part of the Red Sea, and they were set up north. There's another
vessel that's making its way into the Red Sea, and that's more of a
longer term project. If this continues on, that could be involved in potentially
involving helicopter since it has that helicopter capability. But for now, those two
us TV ships are just there on the Red Sea. How standby in case
they're needed. All Right, Louie, thank you so much, and you
know we're gonna pray for the careful evacuation of these people. And yeah,
I mean it's I love that there's a ceasefire. I love that there are
drones. But anytime that you hear that you're trying to get anybody out,
are people out of a war torn area, that's always a scary, scary
thing to think about. So we'll keep our fingers crossed. Louie, thank
you so much. Thanks, I appreciate it. See you later. ABC
is Louis Martinez. All Right. Our other big story this morning that no
one saw coming. President Biden has announced that he's running for reelection in twenty
twenty four. Here is sort of the spoken word part. I guess you
could say of the presidential announcement this morning, it was on video, and
so anytime it's on video, of course you're going to have all this wonderful
music and production and whatever. We just want to get down to the nuts
and bolts of it. So here we go. Freedom. Personal freedom is
fundamental to who we are as Americans. There's nothing more important, nothing more
sacred. That's been the work of my first turn to fight for our democracy.
This shouldn't be a red or volition protect our rights, to make sure
that everyone in this country is treated equally and that everyone has given a fair
shot at making it. But you know, around the country, magar extremists
are lying enough to take on those bedrock freedoms. Cutting social Security that you
paid for your entire life, while cutting taxis from a very wealthy dictating What
healthcare just says is women can make Banning books and telling people who they can
love all I'm making it more difficult for you to be able to vote.
When I ran for Present of four years ago, i said, we're in
a battle for the soul of America, and we still are. The question
we're facing is whether in the years ahead, we have more freedom or less
freedom, More rights are fewer. I know what I want the answer to
be, and I think you do too. This is not a time to
be complacent. That's why I'm running for reelection because I know America. I
know we're good at decent people. I know we're still a country to believes
in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity. That we're a nation
where we give hate no safe hard work. We believe that everyone is equal,
that everyone should be given a fair shout to succeed this country. Every
generation Americas that faced the moment when they have to defend baccercy, stand up
for a personal freedom, stand up for the right to vote, in our
civil rights, and this is our moment. All right, what do you
What do you think? Cheesy good? Anything in there that you didn't expect?
I love the part about the banning books and the freedom to love.
You might as well have just said, Rohnda Santist, this is for you.
But yeah, I mean it's it's what you expected with all the you
know, hoop law that would go behind it for a produced video like that.
So there you go. He's officially in I'm sorry, Vince Scully,
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It is time for Dodger baseball, and today the Dodgers take on the
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Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports, this is your wake up calls.
State Assemblyman Mike Fong has gone to Monterey Park to announce new gun legislation.
A mass shooting in a dance studio in Monterey Park three months ago took the
lives of eleven people. Fong says one of the three new bills would help
remove guns from those who shouldn't have them. Our current system for removing firearms
at a time of conviction lacks enforcement mechanisms. As a result, as of
January twenty twenty three, there was a backlog of nearly twenty four thousand cases.
The other two bills would prevent the government from selling weapons back to the
public and require emergency information be given in other languages and A hit to Fox
News's stock shows the decision to part ways with Tucker Carlson has cost Fox hundreds
of millions of dollars in value. He has said nothing about the decision to
part ways, but we're told that decision came from Lachlan Murdoch, the News
Corps co chairman, along with the CEO of Fox News, Susanne Scott.
Aaron Katurski says Fox's stock closed down about three percent yesterday after the announcement.
Fox thanked Carlson for his service and said his last program was this past Friday
night. Katursky says Carlson will be replaced by a series of substitute hosts.
Let's see how that goes over. Jim Ryan, good morning to you.
So I think there were a lot of people that worked from home during the
pandemic. It's funny. I don't think you did. I certainly didn't.
We were all in at the workplace, but a lot of people got used
to working from home and they figured out ways to be productive at home.
You know, they just kind of had to change their mindset. But during
that time, you had bosses going, how productive are my people? And
now there's a thing called productivity paranoia, and our bosses have it. I
feel like I should go check the forehead of Chris Little he gets here,
Well, Chris has it. Probably a lot of folks do it. It's
just a statement. It says something about the mindset of employers in twenty twenty
three, given what happened in twenty twenty and everybody was working from home,
and concerns among managers and bosses that their folks were sitting at home doing nothing
or we're not being as productive as they were before. So you saw this
sudden surge in purchases and searches for software that would monitor employee seventy five percent
increase between March of nineteen nineteen or twenty nineteen and March of twenty seventy five
percent rise in searches for employee monitoring software. A lot of those companies went
ahead and bought that software. That has continued into twenty twenty one, twenty
twenty two. So it seems as though, even as the pandemic may be
in our rearview mirror, the idea, the thought of monitoring employees is not
okay. So it was the keystrokes. I remember that at first that was
the thing that your boss is going to know how many keystrokes and when you'd
say them and when you make them. But now has that transferred more into
and almost almost like a big brother kind of thing where not only am I
going to maybe monitor your keystrokes still, but I need to have proof of
your productivity. Well, yes, and monitoring keystrokes is one thing. Figure
out what those keystrokes say, right. They want to know what you're working
on out there or not working on the emails that you're sending. And by
the way, if you're working on a company and computer or a laptop or
a tablet or a phone, your employee has the right to go ahead and
put that software in there and keep tabs of what's happening with its equipment.
The best policy, say the companies that produce this software, this's monitoring software,
is to let the employees know that you are keeping tabs on what they're
up to, you know, trying to maintain the company quality and maintain the
bar that those employees set before the pandemic, just to ensure that things are
where they should be. So, you know, letting them know that honesty
and you know, maybe the best policy here. Some employees aren't going to
like it, but at least they'll know that their boss was honest and said,
yeah, we're keeping an eye. I'm reading your emails, your company
emails, and I'm keeping tabs on that company phone that we issued you.
Well, yeah, and I think that, Yeah, I'd be annoyed by
it. I'd be I'd be thinking to myself, Hey, this sucks.
You don't think that I'm being productive or whatever. At the same time,
I would much rather them tell me I was being monitored than to do it
covertly, right, And that's part of, you know, the backfire effect
of all of this janus that employees who find out later that I think we
were being moder What do you mean I was being watched? Are you kidding
me? And there's that anger that can come from that, and then then
you will have people bailing out at some point. Other employees are taking their
own approach. They're fighting fire with fire. There is a subscription I found
this morning, a subscription service called lazy Work whose slogan is whose slogan is
go ahead and take a break for six bucks a month that you'll have this
this software on there, and what it does if it notices that you're away
from your computer for a couple of minutes, it'll start moving the cursor around.
It'll it'll do a random Google search for something or other. It'll,
you know, just it'll look as though you're sitting there at your computer doing
something, not necessarily getting anything done, but at least doing something. So
the boss is monitoring and oh, yeah, yeah, Jennifer is sitting at
her desk and she's doing some I mean she's looking for something or she's scrolling
up and down, so yeah, she's she's gotta be there. Meanwhile,
you're out blasting huge clouds of vape smoke and you know, on the patio
or something exactly, hanging out with the dogs day and fetch whatever. I
was looking last night on strategies to improve your productivity at home or at least
make your boss think that they are. These were the four that came up.
I guess on this one. I don't even know what the website was
that I got this from. From Let's see Well and good dot com.
Seek guidance from your boss on how to prioritize. Ask them how often they'd
like to be updated on your progress. Ensure that you're reachable within me hours
that you've agreed to work and lend a hand others on your team when you
can. I feel like all this is is just tapping the boss on the
shoulder every now and then and saying, hey, I'm still doing something,
or hey, you know, like I haven't gone away completely, I'm still
engaged, or something like that. But I also felt like, if you
do these four things, you can run off and go do whatever you want,
just come back and make sure you ask one of these questions. Always
looking for a way to game the system. March no, listen. But
the point here is that even if you're going back into the office to work,
you're back in the in the cubicle, or you're back there in the
at your desk in front of the boss, a lot of this software has
followed you into the office. So that's kind of the mindset. The habit
that employers have gotten into that was born out of the out of the pandemic
is that, you know what, I'm just going to keep that on there
and keep tabs on this person even though he or she is working in the
office, and and just make sure the productivity remains was before all right,
Jim, thank you so much, and I'm sorry. Well, by the
way, you know me too well. We've worked together way too long.
By Jim, have a good one. Maybe sees Jim Ryan who's outing me
hey. Sentencing is set in la for the mother and boyfriend of ten year
old Anthony Avelos, who was murdered in Lancaster in twenty eighteen. Heather Baron
and Kareem Leva were convicted in March of torturing and killing Avelos. They chose
not to have a jury trial, and the judge did not buy their claims
that the boy hurt was hurting himself throwing himself to the ground, and said
that the parents' statements were intended to deceive authorities about what actually happened. You
know what's interesting about the Anthony Avelos case is that, um, I don't
feel like I probably shouldn't say this out loud, but I try not to
get too deep in the leads in my mind about stories like this. Because
I've talked to you guys about this before. People will ask me like,
how do you get up every day and read stories like the Anthony Avelo's case,
And I said, I just say the words. I can't. I
can't let it sink into my head otherwise I can't imagine what a depressed state
I would be in. And in this case, though, there's something about
this one in particular the heinousness of it, what that little boy had to
go through, that this is This is one I can say when I'm,
you know, have hung up the headphones. This is one I will never
forget. And so I and I know a lot of other people who maybe
don't always ingest the news that we have to deliver. This is one sentencing
that we will all be watching very closely. A mail carrier from South la
who stole unemployment money for more than sixty people has been sentenced to fifteen months
in federal prison. Joy A. Hunter has also been ordered to pay more
than two hundred thousand dollars in restitution. Hunter worked with another woman to steal
more than one hundred forty thousand dollars in benefit money. Prosecutors say from twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty hundred stole debit cards out of the mail from the California
Employment Development Department. She would then give those cards to the other woman,
who would make pins for the cards, and the two would withdraw the money
from an ATM. The other woman has also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced
in July. Like Trolley k if I News, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco
says a new state report on crime reduction is nothing more than garbage in,
garbage out. Last week, prison officials released a first ever report on the
number of felons re arrested after being released early under Prop. Fifty seven,
and the report looked at a three year period. Bianco says that report is
flawed because it didn't account for those who were never caught or people too frustrated
with a judicial system to even report a crime. And President Biden has announced
that is running for reelection in twenty twenty four. Question your fason is whether
in the years ahead we have more freedom or less fretive. He says in
a video that it will be a choice between the more rights or fewer.
Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There's nothing more important,
nothing more shaker now. Biden would be eighty six at the end of
a second term. The announcement comes on the four year anniversary of when he
declared his run in twenty nineteen. Well, let's say good morning now to
Jess Starwood, who is taking a look at mushrooms around all of southern California.
Jess is the author of Mushroom Wanderland, a Forger's guide defining, identifying,
and using more than twenty five wild fun guide Just good morning. I've
seen mushrooms around and I've always thought, I wonder if that's a safe one.
How in the world do we know if the ones that we see around
a maybe the base of a tree or you know, out in a field
kind of thing. How do we know if those are okay to eat or
not? Well, you know, actually there is no one particular way to
know, you know, a widespread fact that you know it's edible, So
you really have to know that that particular one isn't edible. So that's what
really makes it challenging for people to just hop into mushroom hunting. There's there's
no easy way to identify one. How big is the I guess draw or
mushroom hunting. It is bigger than I've ever seen. With all of the
new media out there right now, there's a lot of attention to mushrooms.
People are really into them, but um, yeah, we really have to
be careful, well, yeah, because with all the rain that we've had,
you know, we keep hearing about the shroom boom that we're having in
southern California. But even though you may see them, doesn't mean you should
just run out and eat um exactly. Yeah, it's best to go out
with somebody who knows what's what to look for, and you know what you
can eat, what you can't eat. And really like for myself, it
took me many years until I felt sick enough to eat what I found out
in the wild. And so when you do you take people out? First
off? I do. Yeah, that's that's what I do for a living.
Um. I educate both adults and children about the outdoors. Um,
especially about edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms. Um. So I have a
couple of programs. I do a lot of weekends events. But yeah,
the education around wild edibles is it's super important, you know, especially if
you're interested in actually eating anything you find outside. Where do you take people
when you're going, you know, foraging. Where are some of the places
that you go that you know that the mushrooms are plentiful? Uh? Yeah,
so for mushrooms, it's going to be anywhere where water is going to
be or wet areas, shady areas. You know, you're not going to
find stuff way out in the open works, hot, windy, and dry.
But there are definitely areas around Lau that you can find these kind of
a little tucked away little spots that are going to be conducive for mushrooms.
When you know, we've done stories before about people who go out and they
eat mushrooms and either they get very very sick or it kills them. Honestly,
we've had to do some of those stories as well. Are there any
that you know one hundred percent that you can tell people do not eat that
that one is poisonous? Is there one in particular that grows in southern California
a lot that people might be seeing on a daily basis where you're like,
stay away from that one. Yeah, there's actually two species that are extremely
deadly. They're in the top one percent of mushrooms that you actually should not
eat, and those you grow here pretty often. Those are they're called the
death cap and the Destroying Angel. Both of those yeah, uh, and
they look just like they look very similar to the mushrooms you would buy at
the store. Which makes it even more confusing for people. Um, you
know, they're white, they're they have guilds. They you know, they
look like a very unassuming little mushroom. How would you know which ones are
unassuming? And I guess, I mean, I know that's so hard,
I know, especially on the radio. Can you please paint is the picture
of I guess what? I know that they are the ones that sort of
almost look cartoony. Did I feel like you used to see um in like
around redwood trees and stuff like that with the very they're sort of a long
top on them. They're a little bit skinnier, a little taller. I
guess, um, let's take hurt to me almost like something about like the
Super Mario Brothers kind of yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, um they
are the deadly ones are related to those, um they called an ammane the
mushroom. So but they're completely white, and especially the Destroying Angel is an
all white mushroom. It's going to have a cap and a stem um and
some guilds underneath the cap, same with the death cap, but it's going
to have kind of a greenish, maybe yellowish sort of of hue to it.
Would you tell them. Yeah, would you tell people probably the best
idea is to stay away and not eat it unless you are with someone like
you who knows. Yeah, yeah, I mean yes. Um. Absolutely,
do not eat anything, especially in mushrooms you find in the wild,
unless you are one hundred percent sure um, or be out with an expert
or somebody you know. There are people who you know they grew up mushroom
hunting. They they know what to eat. Their family is you know,
involved in in those traditions. Um, But definitely not just grab anything you
see and be like, oh, this is growing in my lawn or down
the street, let's have it for dinner. That's that's a recipe for disaster.
All right, Jess, thank you so much. If people want more
information or they would like to go with you foraging for mushrooms, where can
they go? You can find me at Jay Starwood dot com or the wild
path dot org and I'm also on Instagram you can find it, Jest Starwood.
Awesome, Thank you so much, and what a fun life you have.
I love this. I'd love to go out with you sometime. Yeah,
let's do it. Okay, sounds good, I'm in Jess. Thank
you so much. All right, Thanks, see you later. Okay,
that is fun. Jess Starwood with the Wild Path. Also she is the
author of Mushroom Wanderland. That would be a fun job. You get to
go out in the wild and find things that you can eat not eat.
Did you guys ever go out This is a really bizarre thing, but it
reminds me of this. Did you ever go out at maybe like a sixth
grade ecology camp or something like that, And did they have you lick the
banana slug? Tyler's looking at me like, I'm crazy, intar nation are
you talking about? Well, maybe that's a writting thing. We would go
out the banana slug. It makes your tongue no numb. Apparently it has
like the same effect as cocaine. It makes your tongue numb. Okay,
Well, anyway, at my ecology camp in reading, hi to everybody from
reading who's listening. And in sixth grade, you would go out to ecology
camp and one of the cool things that we did, cool things, I
don't know. One of the cool things that we did was you'd go out
looking for banana slugs. And banana slugs are the grossest. They're just yellow,
fat, little slugs I don't know that are a three four inches long
usually and maybe like an inch wide, and they're usually on trees and in
the camp counselor would take them off the tree and let every kid lick the
slug. I know it sounds very like in covid Land. Now that I'm
saying that out loud, that sounds like a great idea, but it would
make your tongue numb. Okay, nobody else did that. No, We're
gonna let you sit here with that one all by yourself, totally embarrassed.
Now that that was my one forage into the forest and see what you can
eat or in this case lick God. I love writing, And as you
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Let's say good morning now to ABC's Derek Dennis. Derek, what in
the world happened with cable news yesterday? Let's start with Tucker Carlson. We
were all sitting here just mining our own business, and it was wait,
what Tucker Carlson is out at Fox? First? Let's go into that one.
What happened certainly a surprise. He was the highest rated host on all
of cable, not just on Fox News, averaging three million viewers a night.
But Fox News Media announcing yesterday that it had parted way with Tucker Carlson,
not really giving a reason why. But we know Tucker Carlson has been
a lightning rod for years with his commentary on Fox News in his primetime show.
Also, he was heavily mentioned in that Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit that was
settled last week for nearly eight hundred million dollars, alleging Fox News to fame
the company spread misinformation and falsees, claiming it played a role in the outcome
of the twenty twenty election that former President Trump lost. Text messages and emails
were revealed, noting that a number of Fox hosts, including Tucker Carlson,
said one thing on the air but believes something totally different behind the scenes.
But we don't know that case was settled before it was actually on trial,
so we don't know oh fully what the outcome of that case would have been,
but we know that once it was settled within days. Tucker Carlson appeared
on Friday, his last day on air, and he said at the end
of his show he'd be back on Monday. Oh well, something happened between
Friday nights and Monday morning for Tucker Carlson to be let go from Fox News.
I just don't know. He hasn't spoken at all. That's what I'm
dying to hear from him. I want to hear what his side of the
story is. I want to know how he found out a Fox's stock,
I know, closed down about three percent yesterday after the announcement about Tucker Carlson.
That's probably hundreds of millions of dollars for them, it certainly is.
And you know, it was widely reported that even before this announcement, a
number of advertisers either were refusing to advertise on Tucker Carlson's show or we're pulling
out one by one. And so that was a financial hit as well for
the network, Fox News. So this big payout eight hundred million dollars,
the loss of advertising, and then you know the revelations in court filings and
that dominion lawsuit that Tucker Carlson was spreading misinformation and even disparaging some executives at
Fox News, all of it seemed to be playing a role in his ouster
from the network. All right, let's switch over now to CNN and Don
Lemon. I have to say, the funniest thing I saw yesterday was the
headline that was on CNN that literally said on CNN, this just in,
CNN fires Don Lemon, and I was like, you've got to be kidding
me. I mean, it's bad enough when the cable news networks but breaking
news soon, but this just in, Oh, come on now, Well
that was a pretty mild headline compared to the number of the newspaper headlines around
the country. I mean the New York Post head Lemon drop. Another outlet
said Lemon squeeze, listen, this is another of firing, big name firing
on cable news, and again we don't know the exact reason, but became
a bit of a war of words between Don Lemon and the network. First,
Don Lemon tweeted that he had been terminated from the network after seventeen years,
and then he made a very curious statement within a statement, saying,
I would have thought someone in management would have had the decency to tell me
directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not
be able to continue to do the work I've loved at the network. And
then he added, it is clear there are some larger issues at play.
He didn't elaborate on that, but then CNN followed up with its own statement
basically refuting Don Lemon's claim, saying his words were inaccurate. He was offered
an opportunity to meet with management, but instead released a statement on Twitter.
So no love lost between the two, it seemed. But the party after
seventeen years was certainly curious. But it came after a series of conflict that
Don Lemon has had on the air, most notably the not in her prime
time statement he made about former US Ambassador to the UN Nicki Haley. Yeah,
that comment with Nicki Haley. I think there was a variety article that
came out about him that where maybe he wasn't very respectful of women on the
set. I'm sort of paraphrasing, you know, his colleagues that sort of
thing. And I just found yesterday, though it was such a shock,
I think for both of these big name men to be let go or we
find out on the same day that was The timing was curious, certainly,
And a lot of talk now is about how there seems to be a correction
going on in the media where you know, we saw the Me Too movement
finally ousting some men who have been accused of sexual misconduct. Now it's getting
down to the point of any misbehavior, any bad behavior, especially among men,
it seems, you know, brings a sort of consequence here. I
mean, we're certainly seeing it was Rucker, Carlson, we're seeing what was
Don Lemon. That may be the connection here, cable news deciding that it's
no longer worth it to keep a high profile. Yes, but lightning Rod
hosts on air when it comes at the destriment of lawsuits and advertisers pulling out,
and then just public outcry in general, that may be the correction we're
seeing. All Right, Derek, thank you so much. You're awesome.
I appreciate it. All right, take care of see you later. ABC
is Derek Dennis. I don't know, is there more to come? So
you have the guy on the far right, yeah, the guy on the
far left. I'm just saying, with the Fox and CNN affiliations here,
who's the middle, who's next? And is it all men? Because I
oh, I'm sure in my time, in my thirty years, I've probably
said or done inappropriate things in the workplace. We all have. But it
can't just be men, you know, because it takes a special kind of
woman to work in this industry. And I don't know if I'm giving myself
kudos or if I'm knocking myself on this, but you you have to how
do I put this? Not? You have to in many ways you kind
of get into a newsroom is a culture in and of itself. It is
dark, it is off color, it is it's what I assume on some
levels that it would be like in a I don't know, law enforcement or
something like that, where you see and you hear such awful things that your
humor becomes some thing that is not good for anywhere other than the newsroom,
let me put it that way. But sometimes they can go too far,
and we all know that, and we've all had to say sorry at times
in a newsroom for something that we said or something that was too soon to
joke about. But as these men get nailed, the Tucker Carlson's, the
Don Lemons for whatever reason, when do we start to see the fall of
some of these women. That'll be interesting to me. I don't know.
Maybe women are better at hiding some of the things than men are in newsrooms.
I don't know. I got nothing. Cal State, Domingus Hills is
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