DAVID MARCUS: Don Lemon's 'other' unforgivable crime was against his old profession

Whether Don Lemon broke national instrumentality successful his relation successful an onslaught connected a Minnesota religion volition beryllium up to a jury, but we tin already accidental helium deserves the max for his transgression against journalism.

At issue, some successful the transgression lawsuit and the 1 successful the tribunal of journalistic ethics: Was the erstwhile CNN anchor contiguous astatine the disruption of the religion work successful St. Paul to documenting the event, oregon was helium participating successful it? It was rather intelligibly the latter.

In the moments anterior to the harebrained "protest" successful the location of worship that near children successful tears, Lemon tin beryllium seen outside, connected video helium took himself, telling his spectator that the "operation is simply a secret," adding, "I can’t archer you what’s going to hap but you’re going to ticker it live."

Don Lemon speaks to the media aft a proceeding astatine the Edward R. Roybal Federal Courthouse successful Los Angeles connected January 30, 2026 (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

Lemon intelligibly knows precisely what is going to hap next, due to the fact that helium explains wherefore the assemblage of agitators is truthful White and looks "MAGA coded," saying, "there is simply a crushed they person truthful galore achromatic radical here, I’m going to beryllium honest, for the cognition they are doing today, it is important to person allies, White allies here."

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The lone plausible meaning to Lemon’s bizarre leftist gobbledegook above, is that the "White allies" among the agitators were determination to infiltrate the religion work without arousing suspicion until everyone was successful place.

At that moment, Lemon was making a fateful prime that should formally his vocation successful journalism. Instead of choosing to archer his spectator the truth, which helium knew, helium chose to abet the penetration of a religion by agitators.

Lemon could person breached the story, but alternatively helium helped to physique it.

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Once the alleged transgression disruption of the religion work begins, leaving parishioners shocked and shaken amid piercing screams, Lemon tries to abruptly unreal he’s conscionable a writer who stumbled connected a story. It's a ridiculous lie.

It is, successful fact, precise akin to the prevarication that agitators who physically interfere with ICE operations are conscionable "legal observers," not participants successful the chaos.

During his livestream, anterior to the disruption of the service, Lemon kept operational information for the radical helium was supposedly conscionable "covering," which crosses the brightest enactment successful journalistic ethics.

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By allowing himself to beryllium connected the agitators' "team," arsenic 1 of them blatantly says connected video, Lemon made himself ineligible to screen them, and the biased results wrong the religion amusement precisely why.

Every churchgoer Lemon interviewed, including the pastor trying to thin to his flock successful an exigency were fixed the 3rd grade astir the supposedly evil actions of ICE, portion Lemon’s absorption compatriots were not challenged connected their disruption.

Lemon has rather intelligibly convinced himself that President Donald Trump, ICE, and each of MAGA are an evil, fascist menace and that his archetypal work is to combat that evil. You mightiness say, "At slightest helium is reasonably honorable astir it." But it's not ethical journalism.

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It is imaginable to bash "activist journalism," wrong an ethical framework. One could reason that James O’Keefe and immoderate different gonzo daze video jocks connected the close bash so. But what is captious is that they admit they are activists, and they don't enactment successful transgression activity.

Lemon, and acold excessively galore others successful journalism connected the near person decided that they tin someway beryllium portion of the absorption to Trump portion besides covering it, warts and all, successful a just manner. This has conscionable proven not to beryllium the case.

It has agelong been argued that the lone mode to prevention the journalism industry, which is fundamentally distrusted by 70% of Americans, is for determination to beryllium existent consequences for ethical violations.

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The First Amendment prohibits the authorities from meting retired consequences for unethical journalism, lone the manufacture itself tin enforce them, and that is wherefore Lemon should ne'er beryllium hired by different quality organization.

These kinds of harsh penalties are the lone mode that morals successful journalism tin beryllium enforced, and my goodness, are we successful hopeless request of immoderate superior enforcement.

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There volition beryllium tenable and rigorous statement astir the legality of Lemon’s actions successful Minnesota, arsenic determination should be. But determination should beryllium nary statement regarding his transgression against journalism, proven by his ain livestream.

It is clip for examples to beryllium made, oregon journalism could suffer the spot of the radical forever.

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