We are not producing a product that enough people want, Weiss said. She continued, We can blame demographics or technology or fractured attention spans or news avoidance' but these are all copes. Weiss said she has been blown away by many of her reporters recently, including Matt Gutman's work covering anti-ICE protests in Minnesota. But she said there are two main issues facing CBS right now, with the first one being that not enough people trust the outlet or other mainstream shops in general.
The Sun-Times came under fire this week after readers called attention to a 'summer reading list' published in the paper's weekend edition that recommended books that turned out to be completely nonexistent.