The newly revived “Beat the Press with Emily Rooney” is back with its second story.
This time around, Emily, Scott Van Voorhis and I take on Tony Dokoupil’s embarrassing debut as anchor of the “CBS Evening News.” Dokoupil has, among other things, both-sides-ed the unprovoked killing of Renee Good at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross, sucked up to Marco Rubio, and interviewed White House border czar Tom Homan while failing to ask him about the brown paper bag with $50,000 cash inside.
Bari Weiss must be so proud. You can watch at Contrarian Boston, the newsletter that Scott hosts at Substack.
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Coincidentally, or maybe not, I was searching files on my desktop and came across:
April 24, 2021
CBS News
524 West 57th St.
New York NY 10019
Re: This is newsworthy?
To Whom It May Concern:
Why should anyone bother tuning in to CBS News after the pap and tripe of Norah O’Donnell’s vacuous “interview” with George W. Bush? Its only value lay in underscoring how pitifully fawning, servile, deficient, cowardly, and all too smug the place where Edward R. Murrow used to work has become.
I don’t recall the interview (of course never got a response), but the letter illustrates its worth. Been downhill in my estimation for CBS in the nearly five years since, a marked inflection point in its downward slope with the Bari Weiss masterpiece of the Dokoupil disaster. He’s already been previously revealed as a spokesman for Israel, so why bother to tune him in as well? “60 Minutes” is being checkmated, not that it has been all that stellar over recent years – when did “CBS Reports” last run? “Sunday Morning” seems the last vestige of passable news and features at CBS.
Otherwise, someone let bulls*** loose in the Tiffany network china shop. Last one out turn the…
Addendum: See Clare Malone’s “Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News” profile in the Jan. 26th New Yorker.