Bill D'Agostino
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And they're up to about 13 to 14 minutes now as of last night.
Is that, in fact, good?
It's hard to really contextualize broadcast network time as opposed to, say, like CNN or MSNBC, where you've got like a 24-hour news cycle.
But 13 minutes is actually, that's quite a decent chunk, right?
Because if you think about the evening newscast, they're a 30-minute block, but really only about 18 minutes of that is news, and you've got like 12, 11 minutes of commercials.
So over a month and then an additional week, I would give—
decent amount of credit for almost getting up to 15 minutes there.
Yes and no.
I mean, it's definitely evidence of some of her influence.
But there has been a little bit of the remaining holdover from the previous, I guess, administration, you could call it, at CBS.
Because a lot of the time before Tony DeCoppo came in and was the anchor…
A lot of the time, the introduction to some of the reports on this fraud scandal were completely different from the actual report itself.
So when you had, for example, co-host John Dickerson introducing it, he would introduce it in the same way that, say, NBC or ABC might have, which is to say –
It's all about Trump is terrorizing the Somali community with fraud.
He said these awful comments about Somalians.
Anyway, here's our reporter.
And then the report begins with the actual fraud scandal as opposed to Trump's comments about Somalians.
So there's sort of an imbalance of seriousness between the –
the former co-hosts, and the actual reporting that's being done.
And I would definitely attribute some of the investigative work that's being done to Barry Weiss's influence, because as far as I know, they are the only network of the three that actually has somebody on the ground there digging into this.