"In high-school history class we covered the seminal moment when, in 1968, he declared Vietnam to be an unwinnable war, an inflection point in the public's souring on the conflict. That lesson would have come near the height of the Iraq War, around the time when Cronkite's successor, Dan Rather, was mired in a journalism scandal; he had relied on what turned out to be false documents to cast doubt on George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard."
"Last fall, the media mogul David Ellison, the new owner of CBS, announced that he had named Bari Weiss, the forty-one-year-old founder of an anti-woke publication called The Free Press, to be editor-in-chief of CBS News. Even in an era beset with shocking developments, this one shocked people. Weiss had come up in journalism on the opinion side of newspapers-not as a traditional reporter-and she had only ever managed a small startup."
Walter Cronkite's declaration that Vietnam was unwinnable became an inflection point in public opinion. Dan Rather's reliance on false documents during the George W. Bush era fostered lasting distrust among some conservatives, exemplified by Rathergate. David Ellison bought CBS and appointed Bari Weiss, the forty-one-year-old founder of the anti‑woke Free Press, as editor‑in‑chief of CBS News. Ellison faced entertainment mergers requiring government approval and sought to assuage President Trump, who had sued 60 Minutes and later received a $16 million payout from Paramount. Weiss arrived intent on overhauling a sclerotic institution and challenging traditional TV recruitment norms.
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