“CBS Evening News” Has Lost Over a Million Viewers Since Bari Weiss Takeover: The plunge in viewership comes as Weiss has ushered in an era of Trump-friendly politics for the network.
“CBS Evening News” Has Lost Over a Million Viewers Since Bari Weiss Takeover
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* *CBS’s “Evening News” program lost over a million viewers in its first week under its new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, compared to the same period last year, marking a sharp loss for the network after the network’s billionaire owners installed far right provocateur Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief in October.*
* Data from media audience measurement firm Nielsen shows that the show lost nearly a quarter of its viewership in the first five days of Dokoupil taking over the program, from January 5 to January 9, compared to the same period last year.
* Dokoupil was promoted to anchor of the show, previously hosted by Norah O’Donnell, as the favored voice of President Donald Trump’s fascist movement **after Weiss was reportedly unable to land Fox News’s Bret Baier.**
“Tonight on CBS Evening News, we discuss how Donald Trump’s penis got so enormous and how he is the only sexual matador who tops Stephen Miller. More at 8.”
“CBS Evening News” Has Lost Over a Million Viewers.” That’s a good start!
Weiss turned it to “See BS” Evening News.
Only thing these corporations understand is money, enjoy your losses, Ellisons.
VBS: ***Völkischer Beobachter System***
This is why it isn’t about money. They would have better ratings, and thus more money if they didn’t bend the knee to Trump. Sinclair buys a bunch of stations, and those stations immediately lose value and viewership. It’s about controlling the narrative, it’s about controlling what information people get!
Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson were just getting their rhythm going before being yanked to make way for state media. Two truly professional journalists who could have built on the Cronkite legacy.
FAFO. Based on her numerous appearances on Bill Maher’s Prime Time (before I stopped watching), Bari Weiss is an ignorant, rude, opinionated, and not particularly intelligent asshole. CBS deserves the lost revenue due to their pathetic attempted anilingus on Der Orangefarbene Anführer.
Furthermore, Tony Dokoupil was already in over his head as a third wheel on CBS Mornings. To elevate him to anchor of the once-prestigious CBS Evening News screams “DEI-in-reverse.” Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite are spinning in their graves…
reap, sow, etc
laughter ensues
Count me out too.. I’ve always preferred CBS.. since Trump it’s turning into a hybrid of Fox and Newsmax..
Good luck Bari..
I watched Margaret Brennan interview a Trump sycophant a month ago. She asked totally softball questions, and she never dug into the answers. I turned CBS off in disgust and haven’t watched it since.
They have a political commissar in all but name. The person in charge is an up-jumped tabloid gossip columnist.
Why the fuck would I listen to what has essentially become state media?
Democrats change the channel. Republicans never will. How these corporations do not see that I’ll never know.
The only good thing is that Walter Cronkite didn’t live long enough to see what they did to CBS News.
It’s a small thing, but we have canceled our paramount plus subscription.
It’s ok. CBS is state regime media now. All legacy media is shifting that way
Watched for over 30 years. Quit cold turkey.
But the reality is that these mainstream media purchases are loss-leaders for the billionaires pushing fascism. They don’t care about the economics of it.
If an asshole is screaming and no one is around to hear it, is Bari Weiss being silenced?
They’ll blame Tony and promptly fire him next month as if that’s the real reason.
There is only so much room for Fox News Lites.
PBS News Hour is WAY better than any of the major network news programs have been in years … and especially in the trump era.
I’d suggest watching and supporting them.
I’ve not been able to tolerate CBS|NBC|ABC for months and going back to PBS was mind-blowing. Accurate and in-depth.
Since they’re not getting any federal monies and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has shutdown, we really need to support PBS and NPR and their local affiliates.
I’m one of those losses. I will never watch CBS news again. So disappointed .
I’m a big Star Trek fan. I cancelled my Paramount Plus subscription because they have turned CBS into a Trump propaganda machine.. I hope others follow.
The only way we’re gonna discourage their behavior is to deeply cut their revenues.
She’ll resign in a few months with some bs about how ‘woke politics’ have made her job impossible, and she’ll get some other cushy job failing upwards. It’s pretty much her MO at this point.
Not shocked.
They used to be my go to for any political news I wanted to see live cause they were (imo) the most down the middle of the big network’s.
Now im switching over to BBC America and PBS.
Apparently im not alone
I completely cut them off after Colbert.
Maybe cratering CBS was the plan all along.
Just sayin’.
Isn’t it fun when billionaires have an agenda to just buy things like positions of power and influence media even more? Good thing we do something about that.
Cancel your subscription if you subscribe to Paramount Plus.
This is the best thing I’ve read in a week.
Boycott everything Paramount and CBS. It’s all run by the Ellison’s who are fascists supporters of dementia donny.
Conservatives love to fail upward and then suffer zero consequences for objectively poor performance while yelling about meritocracy and fairness. All while making a few calls for their kid’s recommendation letters and internships.
Putting the goofball stoner morning dude on the desk will definitely fix it!
I was one of them. I now watch ABC for the nightly news.
It’s win-win for Republicans since they got to kill a relatively unbiased source of fact-based news but as a business decision it’s insane… right-wing people will never watch CBS since it’s “left-wing” and letting Bari Weiss take over just means they’ll lose their existing audience of moderates (real left-wing Americans don’t get their news from major networks so they were never watching in the first place).
Conservatives will never watch CBS and now liberals won’t either.
Solid strategy
Thanks Israel!!!!
the sheep already stare at Fox News 24/7 and have been brainwashed to not trust the MSM. But good luck with the CBS, you’ve burned your customers for life
I don’t watch any cable news anymore. Haven’t for at least a decade. Why bother when the ideological propaganda is so obvious that you know what they’re going to say about anything before they ever open their mouths? There’s very little information, and what little actual information is presented is often spun so hard that it bears little resemblence to even an imperfect attempt at presenting objective reality.
Sad to see CBS News following that path. Bari Weiss is a pseudointellectual hack. Which is exactly why billionaires love her and want her in charge.
Media organizations in this country need to be broken apart by anti-monopoly laws. Concentrated media power undermines democracy — as we have been seeing for decades.
She’s a talentless hack.
I don’t know if Bari Weiss is smart enough to know this or not, but this is the entire point of why Trump did all this: to destroy. There was never a world where more people watched CBS after she took over, and linear television is already dying. He just sped up the process.
Because it’s no longer news