by Greateful Calvin: On the downside, the reputation and credibility of CBS News isn’t just in the toilet; it has already circled the drain and gone down to the sewer with the alligators.
But they can take some consolation, we suppose, in the fact that this does not differentiate them from pretty much any other major legacy media news outlet.
But Bari Weiss has promised to do better. So far, the results aren’t great, given CBS’s embarrassing ‘coverage’ of the Minnesota fraud scandal, not to mention the track record of 60 Minutes. But Weiss did recently spike a completely biased and poorly researched 60 Minutes story about prisons in El Salvador.
It’s not much, but it’s a start. This morning, Tony Dokoupil — Weiss’s pick to anchor the network’s flagship nightly broadcast, CBS Evening News — recorded a video acknowledging and accepting responsibility for CBS’s horrible performance over decades. He also promised to do better and to listen to Americans, not just elites. Finally, he asked viewers to hold him accountable. Watch:
"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 1, 2026
That changes now. The new CBS Evening News… pic.twitter.com/NKdvRJjYCS
Yada, yada. I hear more truth from watching Banned.video (Alex Jones) for one hour (eliminating Alex’s repeats) than watching the lefty news for a year. Although, I would hear a few million more lies if I watched lefty news for a year.