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CBS Evening News Anchor

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TheBigA

The new anchor at the CBS Evening News has a message for his audience:

www.cbsnews.com

Tony Dokoupil: Don't just trust me. Make me earn it.

"You come first," declares the new anchor of the Evening News. "Not advertisers. Not politicians. Not corporate interests — including the new owners of CBS."
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

The point is that on too many stories the press missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.
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TheBigA said:
The new anchor at the CBS Evening News has a message for his audience:

www.cbsnews.com

Tony Dokoupil: Don't just trust me. Make me earn it.

"You come first," declares the new anchor of the Evening News. "Not advertisers. Not politicians. Not corporate interests — including the new owners of CBS."
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Rurrow must be rolling over in their graves right about now. I'm going to use the nice(r) British term for this and call it bullocks. First, Mr. Dokoulpil is part of advertiser-supported media and it's the advertisers who are calling the shots, even in the news department. Second, what Mr. Dokoupil seems to be saying is that what his viewers believe is true when in fact it may be false. Journalists, or "The Fourth Estate," are supposed to hold politicians and others accountable for their actions based on factual outcomes regardless of what their listeners/viewers may believe about those politicians and outcomes. Finally, the primary reason one uses experts is because they may know more than the journalist or most viewers on any given subject.

No, I'll stick to NPR, the BBC, and other groups who believe in high-minded journalism.
 
Looks like CBS under its new management is giving Fox the nightly national newscast on OTA TV that Fox, the OTA network, has never had. I wonder if the habitual longtime CBS viewers are noticing the difference and migrating to another early evening newscast or just continuing to trust CBS News the same way they did when Cronkite, Rather or O'Donnell was in the anchor chair.
 
ted chittenden said:
Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Rurrow must be rolling over in their graves right about now.
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Cronkite & Murrow did the same thing. They appealed to the people.

ted chittenden said:
Second, what Mr. Dokoupil seems to be saying is that what his viewers believe is true when in fact it may be false.
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Where does he seem to be saying that? There is no question that the public's trust for the media is at an all time low.

news.gallup.com

Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

Americans' confidence in the media is at its lowest point, as Democrats' confidence is near the record low and Republicans' is almost nonexistent.
news.gallup.com news.gallup.com

ted chittenden said:
Journalists, or "The Fourth Estate," are supposed to hold politicians and others accountable for their actions based on factual outcomes regardless of what their listeners/viewers may believe
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Perhaps that's why trust in media is so low. And perhaps why CBS Evening News consistently ranks at the bottom in TV ratings.

Clearly it's time to try something different. Status quo hasn't worked for CBS.
 
CTListener said:
Looks like CBS under its new management is giving Fox the nightly national newscast on OTA TV that Fox, the OTA network, has never had.
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They're two very different things. Fox News is primarily a TV talk station. The Evening News is a different format.

Is he more conservative than other anchors? Maybe. But saying he reports to the viewers is simply stating the obvious.

CTListener said:
I wonder if the habitual longtime CBS viewers are noticing the difference and migrating to another early evening newscast or just continuing to trust CBS News the same way they did when Cronkite, Rather or O'Donnell was in the anchor chair.
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This guy hasn't started yet. But as I said, CBS Evening News has been in 3rd place as long as I can remember. So the viewers migrated a long time ago.
 
“Too much weight on the analysis of academics.”

So I trust the next time he needs major surgery, he’s going to ask the dude on the subway in an AC/DC t-shirt and not those elite academic doctors who know about surgery. Or when he needs electrical work done, he makes sure to consider the opinions of the guy who couldn’t pass an elementary school science class because…elites. Big, bad elites.

His whole statement is basically Fox News BS, right down to the choices of terms about the imaginary conversations he’s had with oh so many people. It could have been, and may as well have been written, by the White House propaganda office.
 
The point is that on too many stories the press missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.
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“So now, the CBS Evening News, instead of reporting the story, will just read you the comments posted on social media so we can hear from you, the average American. We’ll also introduce a new beat where our reporters will exclusively report from diners in the Midwest.”
 
TheBigA said:
Due to breaking news, Tony will debut tonight:

deadline.com

Tony Dokoupil To Anchor ‘CBS Evening News’ On Saturday, Two Days Earlier Than Planned Debut

His appearance will be two days earlier than planned.
deadline.com deadline.com

variety.com

Tony Dokoupil’s ‘CBS Evening News’ Run to Start Early Amid Venezuela Chaos

Tony Dokoupil's run on 'CBS Evening News' will start two days earlier than expected as media outlets scramble after U.S. military action in Venezuela
variety.com variety.com
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It was enjoyable to watch "Mr. Katy Tur" make his debut on Saturday. Without missing a beat, Tony starts the newscast with "Good evening. Great to be with you tonight, 2 days earlier than expected, with that major breaking news. News that could shape the year, maybe even the century". As before the anchor shift, I'll turn to CBS, which has less "shrill factor" than that offered as "breaking news" by ABC or NBC.
 
Here's an opinion piece about Tony Dukoupil's debut as CBS anchor:

barrettmedia.com

Tony Dokoupil’s CBS Evening News Debut Shows Just How Unforgiving the Anchor Chair Can Be

The mistakes always land on the face the audience sees.
barrettmedia.com barrettmedia.com

My take on this is that he was basically thrown into this job with no training, no warm up, no preparation. He goes from being a morning news guy to managing editor of the Evening News. He doesn't know the crew, he doesn't know the staff, he doesn't really know the job. Just that he has it. He's working for someone who also has never worked in TV, much less at the network level, and really doesn't know what she's doing. It's no wonder it's off to a rough start. There is something to having experience.
 
TheBigA said:
Here's an opinion piece about Tony Dukoupil's debut as CBS anchor:

barrettmedia.com

Tony Dokoupil’s CBS Evening News Debut Shows Just How Unforgiving the Anchor Chair Can Be

The mistakes always land on the face the audience sees.
barrettmedia.com barrettmedia.com

My take on this is that he was basically thrown into this job with no training, no warm up, no preparation. He goes from being a morning news guy to managing editor of the Evening News. He doesn't know the crew, he doesn't know the staff, he doesn't really know the job. Just that he has it. He's working for someone who also has never worked in TV, much less at the network level, and really doesn't know what she's doing. It's no wonder it's off to a rough start. There is something to having experience.
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From that standpoint, he hasn't done as bad of a job as people make it out to be. Those blips were edited out in later telecasts.
 
Dokoupil has already achieved his dream of outdoing Cronkite in one specific way: Cronkite reported the news. Dokoupil’s approach has been to become the news.
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Yep. That's what happens when you take the anchorman out of the studio and put him in the middle of news. Who can forget "Gunga Dan" Rather, wearing his flap-jacket in the middle east, riding in jeeps, reporting from the Iraq War? It's easy to put this all on Tony, but he's surrounded by producers, writers, and a bunch of execs who are all focused on him. So it's not surprising that this all ends up becoming about him. I'd expect the show will change a lot when they go back to the NY studio and are inside the bubble.

I go back to what I've been saying about this: The CBS Evening News has been #3 for 20 years. If they break the mold, that may be a good thing. It may add a couple more years to what we know is a dying animal. But it will never go back to what it was. Because the viewers just aren't there anymore.
 


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