Claire Malone

So I think some people are open to what Weiss has to say.

Other people are quite cautious of her, who have followed her, you know, her very public resignation from the Times, who would note that she has never, you know, been in a traditional newsroom, that she's come up on the opinion side.

I do think that for a lot of these journalists at CBS who are very traditional journalists, that that bothers them.

I do not.

Yes.

You know, when she first started, she gave this talk where she basically said that she wanted to move the 40-yard line of acceptable debate and that CBS was going to be the home to that.

I don't, I mean, no, David, it is not.

I would say that the evening news with Tony DiCupo has become probably the most concrete example we can see of what she sort of thinks about changing CBS.

So Barry Weiss is very involved with this, the actual like writing and editing of scripts for CBS evening news with booking guests.

You know, she's calling in her favors, right?

Trump himself did an interview with Tony DiCupo, although we can talk about how that went.

But I think, you know,

Some of the choices in those interviews of when to push back on Trump officials, Pete Hegseth was interviewed by Tony DiCupo.

He was criticized for basically not pushing harder with Hegseth throughout the interview, but particularly on these points of, wait, was this a, are we invading a foreign country?

Or is it, as you, the Trump administration would say, support for a law enforcement action?

Listen, broadcast interviewing is obviously different from print interviewing, but I think you would talk to a lot of people on broadcast who would say that that was not a rigorous interview.

And I think that there are other choices.

The Marco Rubio moment.

On January 6th, David Muir at ABC News, which is mostly the ratings leader, in their broadcast spent like two or so minutes on it, covered a protest.

It was a fulsome coverage in the middle of the episode.