Elon Musk has abruptly pulled the plug on Don Lemon’s upcoming talk show on the X platform, after a tense inaugural interview between the previous CNN anchor and the billionaire.
Lemon stated Musk texted him to say “contract terminated”. He then shared a post and a video on X discussing the interview and the result. “Elon Musk is mad at me,” he stated. “His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me,” he elaborated.
Elon Musk canceled #TheDonLemonShow👀
Watch on YouTube and pay attention in all places on Monday March 18. pic.twitter.com/AAhnvcY0ny
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) March 13, 2024
“Throughout our conversation, I kept reiterating to him that although it was tense at times, I thought it was good for people to see and hear our exchange, and that they would learn from our conversation,” he stated within the video.
Why did Elon Musk cancel the Don Lemon show on X?
Musk, who owns X, posted on the site about the decision, and the corporate’s official account said: “after careful consideration, X decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show.”
When pressed for a particular purpose, the 52-year-old himself stated that he believed Lemon was taking the wrong approach.
“His approach was basically just ‘CNN, but on social media’, which doesn’t work, as evidenced by the fact that CNN is dying. And, instead of it being the real Don Lemon, it was really just Jeff Zucker talking through Don, so lacked authenticity. All this said, Lemon/Zucker are of course welcome to build their viewership on this platform along with everyone else,” stated his put up.
He clarified that Don Lemon is welcome to share and host the show on X, however there might be no business settlement between the entities.
🍋 is welcome to monetize on this platform, similar to everybody else.
What we aren’t going to do is assure minimal funds to him, as he was demanding, which might be going past everybody else!
Unfortunately, all 🍋 needs to do is rehash the dying CNN enterprise mannequin “however…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2024
The talk show was introduced in January as a part of a option to encourage promoting income again to X after vital advert income losses. The interview with Elon was meant to be the first episode of the brand new enterprise. Don Lemon has said that the show might be accessible throughout platforms together with YouTube and X on Monday, March 18, and can embrace the interview with Musk, regardless of the dissolution of the partnership.
With information that X is coming to TVs, this looks as if a critical blow to Musk’s plans to increase the platform.
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