David Remnick

The Evening News very often, it opens very soft, often with the weather stories and so on.

The notion that it was somehow a liberal opinion magazine—

brought to television and now it's going to be a centrist one that's brought, you know, a big tent op-ed page.

Will Barry Weiss be the head of CBS News two years from now?

Yeah, they didn't buy this property to get CBS News.

That's what came along with it.

Claire Malone, thanks so much.

The New Yorker's Claire Malone.

You can find her reporting on Barry Weiss and much more at newyorker.com.

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I'm David Remnick, and this is The New Yorker Radio Hour.

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I'm David Remnick.

One of the big changes in our politics, and I don't think we've really gotten our heads around it yet, is the change in how and where people get their information.