Don Lemon on MS NOW talked about Scott Pelley being fired from CBS News: <\/p>\n
DON LEMON: The irony in all this is Jim, I mentioned, I forgot, Bari Weiss, she owned it, a journalistic outlet called the Free Press, right? And when you think about what has happened, the irony in that. But look, I think that Jim is right. In this moment, this is a very dangerous moment. And not only do I feel the folks who are in charge, the management, the people in the C-suites, the owners, it’s their fault, but I also think that it’s, I think Scott Palin is an example to all journalists. And if you are in that position, in a way, if I was still there, I might feel a bit embarrassed that I had not stood up. And I understand that people have obligations. You’ve got mortgages, you’ve got all of those things. But I look at journalism in a very similar way as I do an attorney, do no harm, a doctor, do no harm, and you take an oath. And if someone is giving you, not necessarily in a legal order, it’s something that goes against journalistic principles, I don’t believe that you should follow it. And that’s what’s happening in this moment. And it’s, you know, the people who are standing up are the people who have the least power, I believe, in this moment. Maybe in an odd way, we have a power that we don’t really understand. But a lot of our corporate friends are not standing up. And here you have Jim Acosta and me and others who are in independent media, and we are fighting the fight without the big corporation, without the big attorneys, without all the money that goes along with it. We’re out here in these independent streets fighting it. And, you know, people who have much more agency and influence in this are not standing up. So journalists, stand up. If you’re in a position and they’re telling you to do something that, like Scott Pelley said, they were telling him to do. To insert things that- Don’t do it. Just, and tell them. And look, I think, when I left, I was disappointed that the people who did not come to my defense, there were many, and they were told that they couldn’t. That’s what I’ve heard from folks, that they were told that they couldn’t. But I think people in this moment need to stand up for Scott Pelley. I think people need to be a Scott Pelley instead of, you know, one of those people, one of those lackeys who go on television every day or every night and just lie and stand up for Donald Trump, even when he’s wrong. We should all be a Scott Pelley. Scott Pelley should be an example to us. We should all support him. His story is our story. If we lose the First Amendment, the freedom of the press, it is over. This whole experiment that we have towards a more perfect union is over. It is the- Yeah. The First Amendment is the bedrock of our Constitution. And without it, nothing else stands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n