CBS News is dead — as dead as a doornail.
This won't make a dent in our current habits, since we cats can't remember when we last watched any of the networks' evening news shows. But there was a time in our previous nine lives when we wouldn't have missed them. (Or, in our case, the Huntley-Brinkley Report. We knew, though, that CBS had a well-earned, distinguished reputation.)
Today, CBS is under the direction of some strange girl who has no journalistic experience but plenty of delusions of grandeur. The new anchor for the evening news show is a dude named "Dokoupil," who needs to wear an undershirt under his dress shirt (sorry, it's just something we noticed), and who has announced to the world that CBS will no longer consult "elites and academics" about the stories they cover. Guess they're going to talk to MAGA folks in TJ Maxx or diners instead? Why bother with experts?
It's adorable how they think we're going to watch any of this.
CBS also issued a grossly insipid and jingoistic statement about their alleged core principles, including the fact that they "love America — and we make no apologies for saying so." Somebody please tell Officially Bad Writer Bari Weiss that Edward R. Murrow loved America, too. Probably more than she can comprehend. (It would be hard to have reported on Nazi Germany and the war in Europe, as Murrow and William R. Shirer did, and not come away from the experience loving America.)
Dan Rather, the surviving member of CBS in its heyday, has not tweeted or skeeted about these developments. We have our differences with him, too, but we'd still like to hear what he has to say about the downfall of his once-mighty employer. Meanwhile, we'll continue to support independent media, thank you very much. At least none of the people who podcast to us are married to Katy Tur. We cats HISS.
