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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,239 posts)
Sun May 10, 2026, 03:29 PM Sunday

Why CBS Evening News May Never Recover from Bari Weiss' Meddling

Seven months after a partisan newsletter editor with zero broadcast experience was handed the top job at CBS News, you might not be surprised to learn that the legendary news network is flailing. Bari Weiss’ scheme to transform the non-political news giant into a 21st century MAGA-coded digital media outlet is, instead, an old-fashioned train wreck.

The network’s credibility is suffering with the right wing content shift and 24/7 chaos, top talent is leaving or being pushed out the door as political litmus tests are becoming the norm and the audience is fleeing. The CBS Morning News “saw its lowest-rated April on record” and the network’s marquee evening newscast has hit new lows “not seen in this century.”

The latest headlines are brutal:

CBS’ Ratings Calamity

CBS Evening News Keeps Hemorrhaging Viewers to Record Lows

‘CBS Evening News’ Ratings Disaster: Tony Dokoupil Hits Rock Bottom

MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Hit With ‘Trainwreck’ Ratings Downfall

More bad news for Bari Weiss’ CBS as viewership nosedived in latest Nielsen ratings

The ratings collapse at the CBS Evening News began almost immediately after Weiss relaunched the program in January with her handpicked anchor, Tony Dokoupil. After a series of on-air stumbles, meek interviews with Donald Trump and administration officials, and an awkward salute to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the newscast “experienced its worst January this century.”

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/why-cbs-evening-news-may-never-recover

Everything MAGA touches dies

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Why CBS Evening News May Never Recover from Bari Weiss' Meddling (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday OP
Trump/CBS News will never recover, and it has dragged down dem4decades Sunday #1
I watch CBS evening news on Fridays only for On The Road with Steve Hartman. The newscaster is Deuxcents Sunday #2
I'm boycotting CBS. Apparently I'm not the only one! JustKay Tuesday #3

dem4decades

(14,356 posts)
1. Trump/CBS News will never recover, and it has dragged down
Sun May 10, 2026, 03:42 PM
Sunday

Local affiliates and shows. I won't watch them ever again, I doubt I'm the only one.

And who in the world will watch 60 Trump Minutes? Someone here mentioned that the take over at CBS was a catch and kill, in that respect it was a highly successful plan.

Deuxcents

(27,621 posts)
2. I watch CBS evening news on Fridays only for On The Road with Steve Hartman. The newscaster is
Sun May 10, 2026, 04:36 PM
Sunday

Devoid of any personality and delivered like a robot. I don’t watch CBS for anything else..news or not

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