Does legacy television news have a future? For a variety of reasons, it seems unlikely. Most of those reasons boil down to this: Americans just don’t trust the establishment media. But if veteran newsman Tony Dokoupil’s recent monologue on this subject is any indication, the industry still isn’t prepared to acknowledge that it has sacrificed public trust for the sake of advancing liberal partisan narratives.
Let’s give him one-and-a-half cheers, however. Dokoupil is at least willing to say out loud that very few people trust his network, CBS News, or the rest of the legacy media. Dokoupil is set to start as a new anchor for CBS on Monday.
In his admission of guilt, Dokoupil confessed that he has had “thousands of conversations” with ordinary Americans, from his mom’s West Virginia neighbors to his own New York neighborhood, to countless other spots in the country, about what Americans think legacy news has misreported. He listed a few of the topics: NAFTA, the Iraq War, Hillary Clinton’s emails, COVID-19 lockdowns, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, and “the president’s fitness for office.”
It’s a pretty thorough list, to be honest. The media indeed screwed up all of these stories, to the detriment of the country.
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