Jussie Smollett and Don Lemon...

 The American public follows these news stories. When it's revealed via email, in court, that America's news reporters are becoming newsmakers themselves by inserting themselves into the story by trying to influence the outcome/narrative spin, you lose public trust and shame your profession. You chuck your honor and ethics to unfairly help a friend or relative from your place of influence, here trading in early information, not yet reported publicly.

That's not a crime but a journalistic breach of ethics that helps no one in the end, least of all your celebrity friend, still in denial, who appears to think he is on trial for being gay, not for filing false police reports,  costing a strapped city hundreds of thousands in investigation-related costs, and worst of all -- trying to inflame racial and political tensions in a mixed city that has no tolerance for anyone who would ignite the hatred that helps to burn a city down, just to advance his celebrity career...

Sad.