Within the wake of a testy interview with Elon Musk, the previous tv anchor Don Lemon’s deal for a brand new discuss present on X combusted simply days earlier than it was scheduled to air.
Mr. Musk referred to as off Mr. Lemon’s partnership with X, the social media platform previously generally known as Twitter, the day after filming an hour-and-a-half lengthy interview with the previous information anchor at SpaceX’s workplace in Austin, Texas. The dialog was sometimes tense, Mr. Lemon mentioned, as he requested probing questions in regards to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections and Mr. Musk’s numerous enterprise ventures.
Mr. Lemon mentioned he would launch the interview on March 18. “My questions have been respectful and large ranging, protecting every little thing from SpaceX to the presidential election,” Mr. Lemon mentioned in an announcement. “We had an excellent dialog. Clearly he felt otherwise. His dedication to a world city sq. the place all questions will be requested and all concepts will be shared appears to not embrace questions of him from folks like me.”
Salespeople at X have been blindsided by the information of the abrupt cancellation, as they’d been working as lately as Monday to trace the sale of advertisements for the present, in keeping with an inner doc seen by The New York Instances.