Connie Chung Slams Bari Weiss, Says CBS News Has Crashed 'Into Crumbles' Under 'Greedy Owners'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Connie Chung slammed CBS executives, including Bari Weiss and David Ellison, calling their “greedy” leadership responsible for the network’s decline.

The former CBS News anchor said the network’s uncertain future “distresses [her] terribly” on Thursday’s episode of the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast. She added she no longer watches the network: “I can’t.”

“The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion,” she said. “The truth doesn’t have value anymore.”

“It distresses me so terribly,” she said. “CBS is a whole different organization that I had worked for. CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners, Shari Redstone, partnering with David Ellison.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/connie-chung-slams-bari-weiss-235151547.html

Regretfully that describes most media outlets these days.

[Dave Bowman]

1. Connie Chung. Wow that's a name that I haven't heard in a while. Totally agree with her.

[Bluetus]

2. FWIW, the legacy networks are almost completely irrelevant now

They get only 10% of the "television" viewership, and that includes lots of sports programming.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5250013-legacy-broadcasters-account-for-just-over-10-percent-of-tv-viewership-in-march/

Meanwhile younger generations are consuming much more from streaming and podcasts. If we were to look at where people aged 20-60 have their eyeballs, I bet the legacy networks would be way under 10%

Other than Sports programming, the only thing I ever see on the legacy networks might be the occasional segment of Kimmel or Colbert, but even that is mostly Youtube clips.

[Cha]

3. Mahalo for speaking Out

about CBS' Travesty of so called "news", Connie Chung!

[EastBayGuy]

4. Thank you for sharing this, we need more reminders of what has happened to the media.

[Jimvanhise]

5. BARI WEISS IS A CLOWN

John Oliver did a detailed take down of her on Last Week Tonight weeks ago which you can see on Youtube. I'm surprised CBS didn't fire her over his embarrassing revelations.

[Warpy]

6. CBS keeps doing this periodically. So does CNN

A new owner swans in with a new team, picks some idiot who promises to peel the old white men in the suburbs off Pox and Newsmax and deliver them to either network, and trashes the news room staff. The vaguely liberal urban viewers who are the backbone of their demographic abandon them quickly as the reporting turns to shit, the advertisers notice the bad numbers and bail, there is a top management shakeup and things very quietly start to go back to normal.

I'm sure Mis Weiss will land on her feet and find some other corporation to fuck up.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R