CBS News has altered programming, personnel, and policies to align more closely with President Donald Trump under new ownership. Paramount Skydance took control of CBS and appointed Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, overseeing editorial and staffing shakeups including Tony Dokoupil as anchor of CBS Evening News and a more active role in shaping 60 Minutes coverage. The administration has been described as steering CBS and TikTok into the hands of a wealthy Trump supporter, with CNN expected to follow. Major media companies are also described as retreating from pressure by settling cases, transforming editorial pages, and allowing the president to rewrite style guides, including changes framed as harmless.
"Under this new ownership, CBS has already altered programming, personnel, and policies in ways that align more closely with the administration's preferences. Dispensing with even the pretense of journalistic norms, CBS and its owners recently hosted a party honoring the Trump White House."
"Sulzberger reserved his sharpest criticism for Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, whose company recently took control of CBS and steered changes inside CBS News by appointing Bari Weiss, a former Times columnist, as editor-in-chief. Weiss has overseen a string of editorial and staffing shakeups, including elevating Tony Dokoupil to anchor CBS Evening News and taking a more active role in shaping 60 Minutes' coverage."
"The administration has effectively steered a broadcast outlet, CBS, and a social media platform, TikTok, into the hands of one of the president's wealthiest supporters with a cable news channel, CNN, likely to follow later this year, he said."
"Those who have settled winnable cases to appease the administration or advance their business interests, he said. Those who have transformed their editorial pages to placate the president. Those who have let the president rewrite their style guides, telling themselves it's harmless to swap out the Gulf of Mexico for the Gulf of America to avoid something worse."
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