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10:01Now PlayingCBS News Is Dying - The Ratings Collapse Is Getting Embarrassing
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10:01Now PlayingCBS News Is Dying - The Ratings Collapse Is Getting Embarrassing
Tony Dokoupil's CBS Evening News is hemorrhaging viewers at a pace that should alarm anyone still paying attention to legacy media. Brought in by Barry Weiss, the editor appointed by Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison to steer CBS News and 60 Minutes toward conservative audiences, Dokoupil's nightly broadcast has shed viewers almost from day one, dropping 20% in its first week alone. Recent numbers put average nightly viewership at roughly 3.83 million, with only 468,000 viewers in the key 25 to 54 demographic. For context, ABC News pulls 8.5 million nightly and NBC Nightly News draws 6.5 million. The strategy to court right-leaning audiences appears to be backfiring in real time.
Dokoupil's tenure has already drawn scrutiny for a glowing segment on Marco Rubio and a widely criticized softball interview with Pete Hegseth. His on-air treatment of author Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he accused portions of Coates' book of belonging in the backpack of an extremist, sparked intense debate about pro-Israel bias at the network. Anderson Cooper, who was approached to anchor the CBS Evening News broadcast, took one look at the situation and walked, ultimately leaving 60 Minutes entirely to return to CNN full-time.
Barry Weiss, whose outlet the Free Press published a piece questioning whether Palestinians in Gaza were actually dying of starvation, is the architect of this editorial direction. The audience CBS News hoped to attract does not appear to exist in the numbers they imagined, and the ratings are proving it week after week.
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