On a light note, Don Lemon and TJ Holmes appeared in the clip below to prove to people that they are not the same person. If people can't tell the difference between a 34 year old with a baritone voice and buzz cut like Holmes and a 45 year old with a slightly higher voice, smaller nose, and medium length afro like Lemon, then you can tell them anything and they'll believe it.
Yet, the comparison "game" had a different outcome when CNN laid off 50 staffers--including a dozen photojournalists. According to reports, the network feels that the availability of citizen journalists led to this cost-cutting move. It goes back to the old saying: Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free.
As a current CNN iReporter, I appreciate the platform that they have given me. But I would never try to move forward at the expense of others. We need to train professional journalists how to think like iReporters and vice versa. The pros and the amateurs can work together instead of against one another.
In my opinion, the layoffs are a much bigger issue than playing two black men off one another. The network just got less diverse with a loss of 50 employees and having Lemon and Holmes joke about their not-so-similar appearances doesn't make anything better.
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