CNN plans to sober up its gleefully boozy coverage of New Year’s Eve—but Andy Cohen says otherwise.
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would apparently prefer to keep a lock on the liquor cabinet, saying during a company town hall on Tuesday that anchors’ on-camera drinking “eroded the credibility of CNN personnel and damaged the ‘respectability’ they may enjoy among viewers,” as reported byBut it appears that this credo may only apply to reporters, not hosts such as Cooper and Cohen, who are stationed in Times Square for the annual ball drop.
In recent years, the “most trusted name in news” has become synonymous with its inebriated end-of-year celebration. And viewers have delighted in watching typically buttoned-up figures let loose. In 2016, Lemon—who has led CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage after 12:30 in the morning—
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