The arrest of the independent journalist Don Lemon has pulled the former CNN anchor, who has been a regular media presence in American life for nearly 20 years, back into the spotlight.
The 59-year-old news anchor once stood at the apex of news media as a primetime host of a CNN show. But in February 2023, Lemon was rebuked by CNN’s then CEO, Chris Licht, and briefly taken off the air over televised remarks about the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s age, who at the time was running for the Republican presidential nomination.
