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Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« on: February 03, 2026, 11:08:19 am »
Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem

The Last Wire

Journalism used to be about distance, discipline, and documentation. The reporter stood apart so the public could see clearly. What we have now is something else entirely. A performance culture where the camera is no longer a window, but a weapon, a shield, and a prop. Don Lemon is not an outlier in this system. He is a symptom of it.

When journalists step into the story, provoke events, or embed themselves emotionally and physically inside charged situations, they are no longer witnesses. They are participants. That shift matters. It affects legality, credibility, and public trust. It also creates a dangerous feedback loop where chaos becomes content and outrage becomes currency.

This piece examines the collapse of journalistic boundaries, the incentive structures that reward spectacle over restraint, and why the public is right to distrust a press corps that increasingly confuses activism with reporting. This is not about politics. It is about professionalism, ethics, and the cost of turning news into theater.

Read the full piece at The Last Wire:

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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2026, 11:18:53 am »
Journalism is a disinterested observer seeking the truth.

Propaganda is rhetoric meant to advance a poltical cause.

Gossip is parroting unconfirmed, uncorroborated, rumors from unnamed persons for entertainment.

Info-tainment is creating entertainment content based off current events.

There are very few real journalists in the mediasphere these days.

We are being spoon-fed political propaganda, gossip, and info-tainment by media oligarchs to distract and redirect us from dis-assembling their oligrachy.

Dom Lemon is a co-conspirator and participant in an act which violated the Civil Rights of worshippers.
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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2026, 11:33:53 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on February 03, 2026, 11:18:53 am
Journalism is a disinterested observer seeking the truth.

Propaganda is rhetoric meant to advance a poltical cause.

Gossip is parroting unconfirmed, uncorroborated, rumors from unnamed persons for entertainment.

Info-tainment is creating entertainment content based off current events.

There are very few real journalists in the mediasphere these days.

We are being spoon-fed political propaganda, gossip, and info-tainment by media oligarchs to distract and redirect us from dis-assembling their oligrachy.

Dom Lemon is a co-conspirator and participant in an act which violated the Civil Rights of worshippers.

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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2026, 01:13:42 pm »
Bottom line is Lemon thinks exercising his First Amendment rights means stomping on others' First Amendment rights to do so.
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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2026, 01:31:00 pm »
There is no "right" to break the Law, and no "right" to impede Federal agents.

And if anyone says so, challenge them to point out exactly where in the Constitution it says that.
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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2026, 01:50:50 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on February 03, 2026, 11:18:53 am
Journalism is a disinterested observer seeking the truth.

Propaganda is rhetoric meant to advance a poltical cause.

Gossip is parroting unconfirmed, uncorroborated, rumors from unnamed persons for entertainment.

Info-tainment is creating entertainment content based off current events.

There are very few real journalists in the mediasphere these days.
We are being spoon-fed political propaganda, gossip, and info-tainment by media oligarchs to distract and redirect us from dis-assembling their oligrachy.

Dom Lemon is a co-conspirator and participant in an act which violated the Civil Rights of worshippers.

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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2026, 02:19:01 pm »
The symbolic consonance of Yellow Journalism being practiced by a Lemon should in no way distract from the truly despicable nature of the man's actions in this event.

Intentionally invading the sanctity of a place of worship in order to make a political "statement" is not an exercise of Free Speech; it is rather a cruel and soulless act of vanity performed out of spite and contempt for the rights of others.   
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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2026, 07:07:35 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on February 03, 2026, 02:19:01 pm
The symbolic consonance of Yellow Journalism being practiced by a Lemon should in no way distract from the truly despicable nature of the man's actions in this event.

Intentionally invading the sanctity of a place of worship in order to make a political "statement" is not an exercise of Free Speech; it is rather a cruel and soulless act of vanity performed out of spite and contempt for the rights of others.

It's also a violation of the same law that makes invading abortion mills a Federal offense.
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Re: Journalism on Mescaline: The Don Lemon Problem
« Reply #8 on: Today at 03:42:27 am »
Quote from: Canuck Conservative on February 03, 2026, 01:31:00 pm
There is no "right" to break the Law, and no "right" to impede Federal agents.

And if anyone says so, challenge them to point out exactly where in the Constitution it says that.
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