Tony Dokoupil is NO Walter Cronkite NO Dan Rather AND NO Scott Pelley
They have to be among the most recognizable internet faces ever. The Onion has only been using them since the late '90s. (It appears the Wayback Machine never archived their image URLs from that period, but I did find the 2002 group archived here.)I hope they hold the same jobs as they hold every time they appear in The Onion's American Voices feature. The jobs change daily: a Cellophane Expert, a Doll Clothier and a Replica Appraiser on Saturday, while on Friday they were a Circus Administrator, a Hook Bender and a Regional Orator.
Perhaps they are, or were, Onion staffers, so it was also an inside joke.They have to be among the most recognizable internet faces ever. The Onion has only been using them since the late '90s. (It appears the Wayback Machine never archived their image URLs from that period, but I did find the 2002 group archived here.)
I wonder if they were originally well-done Photoshop composites or if they actually exist and had to deal with people stopping them on the streets...
See BS News.Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.
FTV Live has really been taking Dokoupil and Weiss to the woodshed over the piviot to the right at CBS. Well worth reading.
No, it's not like Larry turned CBS News over to the radio club at Oracle. There are still plenty of experienced hands there. They're probably just keeping their heads low these days, hoping David and Larry get bored with their new playtoy.Could it be a Trump donor's son is trying to kill a non Trump supporter news operation. I hope I am wrong. Maybe it's just inexperienced, incompetent folks running CBS.
That audience is already at Fox News et al
The image of the Howard Beale character from Network just popped into my mind.Perhaps at some point Tony will evolve to that, where he just sits at the anchor desk and spouts his opinion for 30 minutes. He's not there yet.
The image of the Howard Beale character from Network just popped into my mind.![]()
I hope not. So far he's done an alright job of at least being "neutral."The presentation at Fox News is different. It's mainly done as long-form talk. Just to get a small part of that audience would help CBS News.
Perhaps at some point Tony will evolve to that, where he just sits at the anchor desk and spouts his opinion for 30 minutes. He's not there yet.
...and that audience does not trust CBS to begin with, they have no incentive to watch it even as a Fox News knockoff when the real thing exists. So CBS is blowing out whatever audience they had with virtually nothing to show for it.That audience is already at Fox News et al