"Bari Weiss, Tony Dokoupil, and the pieces of CBS News they speak for are somewhat obsessed with telling you that they don't expect your trust, but they intend to earn it. Dokoupil when he stepped into the CBS Evening News anchor role earlier this month. Weiss reiterated this yesterday during her all-hands meeting with the CBS News staff, wherein she also promised those of us at home scoops, scoops, and more scoops ."
"Dokoupil interviewed his own mother to close out his broadcast last night. The segment in question was about a study which suggests that being a grandparent is good for your brain, so Dokoupil got his mother on a video call to see if she agreed. She did! Case closed. Dokoupil also tweeted out the segment with the cutesy caption, "Called a big source for this one.""
"Of course, human interest stories like "grandparents good" have long been a staple of evening news telecasts, but interviewing one's own family member is generally considered ethically questionable, at best. The story, as of this writing, sits on the CBS Evening News website homepage beside stories about a man accused of murdering his ex-wife and above a story highlighting CPB's own report on the ICE execution of Alex Pretti this weekend in Minneapolis . CBS News: it is a product that people want."
CBS News leadership and anchors publicly pledge to earn viewers' trust and promise exclusive scoops. Tony Dokoupil closed a broadcast by interviewing his own mother about a study suggesting that being a grandparent benefits the brain, then tweeted the segment as if citing a source. Human-interest features like this are common on evening newscasts, but interviewing one's own family member raises ethical questions. The segment appears prominently on the CBS Evening News homepage alongside more serious crime and public-interest stories, highlighting tensions between audience-friendly content and journalistic standards.
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