Claire Malone

DeCouple only briefly acknowledged it, genuinely a few seconds, and then the show closed with Marco Rubio Florida Man memes.

So I think there are different editorial choices being made at CBS.

And perhaps some of that is sensibility, a desire for the news to, you know—

speak to people in a more casual, intimate way.

The idea that a lot of people get their news not from the television anymore, but from YouTube.

I think I would say that that is the generous interpretation.

And I think that the very vocal criticism is, well, this is, you know, softening an administration that is taking really, really radical, radical actions, including against journalists.

I

You know, not soon after, the FBI searched a journalist's home.

I mean, just a genuinely, I found it shocking.

I think that people...

Broadly understand that the network has to modernize, adapt, change.

I think even Barry Weiss's supporters, and maybe even Barry Weiss herself, would say that she's made some mistakes.

From people who, you know, are...

critical, you know, hostile to her or openly critical of her, they'd point to, they'd say, you know, listen, I don't know if I want to be at this kind of news organization.

This isn't the kind of place I want to work at, and this isn't something that I find familiar.

So this idea that, yes, we might need change, but you throw the baby out with the bathwater, right?

And the baby being, you know, regular, shmegular, traditional reporting journalism, right?

You know, I'm sure it bothers her.

How could it not, right?