{"id":65808,"date":"2026-02-09T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-urges-us-to-keep-fighting-for-right-to-free-press\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:59:24","slug":"ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-urges-us-to-keep-fighting-for-right-to-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-urges-us-to-keep-fighting-for-right-to-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon urges US to \u2018keep fighting\u2019 for right to free press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist arrested after covering anti-ICE protest says it was \u2018very frightening\u2019 to experience government overreach<\/p>\n<p>The former CNN anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/don-lemon-arrest\">Don Lemon<\/a> has warned the US must \u201ckeep fighting\u201d for its right to a free press, calling it \u201cthe breath in the lungs of democracy\u201d following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/don-lemon-arrest\">arrest<\/a> alongside another journalist by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon was arrested late last month, days after covering an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/30\/don-lemon-minnesota-protest-charges\">Minnesota church service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/don-lemon-free-press-first-amendment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist arrested after covering anti-ICE protest says it was \u2018very frightening\u2019 to experience government overreach The former CNN anchor Don Lemon has warned the US must \u201ckeep fighting\u201d for its right to a free press, calling it \u201cthe breath in the lungs of democracy\u201d following his arrest alongside another journalist by the Trump administration. Lemon &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon urges US to \u2018keep fighting\u2019 for right to free press\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/ex-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-urges-us-to-keep-fighting-for-right-to-free-press\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon urges US to \u2018keep fighting\u2019 for right to free press\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}