Former NCS anchor Don Lemon stated this week he doesn’t like the brand new, podcast-inspired setups that the community has lately adopted, revealing that he has discovered the shift to be “so cringe.”
Lemon supplied his ideas on the change throughout the Wednesday episode of “The Don Lemon Show.” While talking with Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall, Lemon stated he has not appreciated the new look of some of NCS’s biggest shows. Even worse, the previous NCS host stated he believes the course runs counter to what viewers really need from the community.
“To me, it’s cringe, because the reason people watch NCS is for the credibility of Jake and Anderson and Erin, and there is, you know, sort of this illusion, if you want to put it that way, about television news,” Lemon defined. “It’s larger than life, the colors are brighter than in real life. It’s big fancy sets that glow, and that’s what it is.”
“Ultimately, that’s eye candy,” Lemon continued. “What people tune in for is the editorial. It is — whatever the network is — the tone and tenor of their news. And for credibility. It’s not because someone is speaking into a podcast mic with their sleeves rolled up.”
You can watch Lemon’s full episode within the video under.
NCS viewers have been stunned this week to see some of the community’s main reveals, together with “The Lead with Jake Tapper” and “Anderson Cooper 360,” abandon their conventional newsroom designs for set-ups that really feel deliberately impressed by video podcasts. Tapper, as an illustration, has began internet hosting his present from behind his desk at his house workplace with a microphone visibly in entrance of him, whereas Cooper has begun to roll his sleeves up, calm down his tie and conduct interviews at roundtables overflowing with equally seen microphones.
This new course, clearly designed to play on the rising success of video podcasts on each streaming and the web, has upset many information analysts and longtime NCS viewers. Lemon, for his half, argued that the community ought to be doing the precise reverse. That is to say: It mustn’t abandon its old-school newsroom look however reasonably embrace it much more proudly.
“I would lean into it. We’re f—king NCS!” he defined. “We’re going to have a backbone and we’re going to have some teeth into our editorial, and we’re going to hold this administration accountable. We’re not going to put on election deniers. We’re not going to put on people who come on just to lie.”
“They’re trying something. I give them credit for that, but it is so cringe to watch,” Lemon concluded. “I’m just being honest.”
