Oliver Darcy
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It wasn't so overt.
It wasn't so in your face.
In the last week, hasn't even been a week, I think, since Tony DiCoppo recorded his message saying the media misses stories because it focuses too much on academics and elites.
I mean, it has been very overt, whether it was that message, whether it was them releasing these principles, professing their love for America, whether it was, again, that softball interview with Pete Hegseth on the night that we learned about the attack on Venezuela, or the ride-along with Kristi Noem as she's doing these ice raids, and on and on it goes.
It has been very... They're not hiding what they're doing.
They are actually...
making it very obvious to viewers.
And I think inside CBS News, as you talk to people, they are alarmed.
A lot of these people have worked at CBS News for their entire careers.
They've been proud to work at CBS News.
It's been the Tiffany Network.
It's the longest running evening newscast.
It has a lot of history behind it.
Cronkite sat at that desk.
Edward R. Murrow was there.
This is a network of
that has a lot of history and a lot of people have been very proud to wear the CBS News jersey because of that history, because of the history of standing up to power during McCarthyism.
This feels to them like a betrayal of CBS News values, basically sucking up to this administration.
And they're very worried that this is, you know,
I think that they were all holding their breath, Don, over the last couple of months that Barry Weiss wouldn't actually meddle in the journalism to the extent that she is.