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When the Reporter Becomes the Story: Don Lemon's Chaotic Turn Remember when journalists stood behind velvet ropes, observing history instead of making it? Don Lemon didn't get the memo . Or maybe he did, crumpled it up, and threw it at an ICE vehicle . The former CNN anchor — now a YouTuber with a press pass and a loose grip on his own objectivity —has been showing up at ICE protests like he's auditioning for a reality show called Make America Calm Down . And on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day , watching Lemon transform from news reporter to news subject feels like some twisted commentary on how far we've fallen from the measured moral authority of the Civil Rights era. Dr. King understood optics. He understood that the movement was bigger than any individual, that cameras were weapons of truth when wielded with precision and purpose. Fast forward sixty years, and we've got Don Lemon— press credentials swaying —not just covering protests but becomin...