"Nothing will happen at CBS, Kelly wrote on X. Nothing. Legacy media is dead and evening news has been totally irrelevant for a long time. CBS has not had evening viewers in any competitive way in more than a decade. It's not reversible. In his initial statement, to which Kelly was responding, Dokoupil agreed with critics who have criticized the media for not always reporting reality."
"So here's my promise to you as long as I sit in this chair: you come first, he said. Not advertisers. Not politicians. Not corporate interests. And, yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS. I report for you. Which means I tell you what I know, when I know it and how I know it. And when I get it wrong, I'll tell you that too."
Legacy broadcast evening news is declared irrelevant and described as effectively dead, with claims that CBS lacks competitive evening viewership for more than a decade and cannot reverse that trend. A new anchor vows to prioritize audiences over advertisers, politicians, corporate interests, and even corporate owners, pledging transparency about sources, timing, and errors. Criticism focuses on press failures driven by prioritizing advocates, academics, or elites over average Americans, leading to missed stories. Internal conflicts intensified between a conservative commentator and a network editor-in-chief after a political event and publication of a speech transcript, fueling public dispute.
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