CBS Evening News

Using the Trump administration’s announcement of tariffs against China as a hook, the CBS Evening News ran one of the weirder items in recent memory. After watching this story on the National People’s Congress, reasonable individuals are left to wonder whether the network should eventually change its name to XiBS. 

Once again, the CBS Evening News has decided to shine a victim spotlight on fired federal workers. This time, the focus is cast on the plight of a fired USAID worker.

In today’s DOGE-deranged news environment, stories seeking to spotlighting the adversity endured by federal workers often draw top billing. A new CBS Evening News report goes to that well again, and manufactures a link between the DOGE buyouts and Musk’s purchase of Twitter, in an attempt to imply malfeasance.

There is a lot of significant activity occurring south of the border, with massive implications for the United States. And yet, so-called “legacy media” can’t bring themselves to cover it.

CBS News is still smarting over Paramount’s decision to release the full transcript of the creatively-edited 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, which removed significant word salads from her responses. The beleaguered CBS Evening News is still defending the interview, even as the parties move closer to settling the $20B lawsuit.

Today’s portion of the ongoing “legacy” media meltdown over the role of Elon Musk and DOGE in the current administration centered around Musk’s participation in the Cabinet meeting. Musk drew scrutiny in a way that escaped Jill and Hunter Biden as when they attended similar meetings.

Between Monday and Tuesday mornings, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were beside themselves, enraged over President Trump’s decision to select our friend (and 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner) Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director, painting his “no experience” at the agency as a national security threat and insinuating wholesale changes could thwart their ability to stop terror…

Along with our friends at Breitbart, The Blaze, Daily Wire, and the New York Post, the Washington Free Beacon and Thomas Catenacci revealed Friday thanks to a disclosure from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found “$2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial…

The New York Post had a juicy scoop Thursday about the newly formatted CBS Evening News – with new co-anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois and fewer-but-more-in-depth stories – has been such a failure in just four weeks they’re crying uncle.

We have arrived at the stage of DOGE derangement wherein the media are now poring over the words President Donald Trump uses in describing the ongoing program cuts across several government agencies. Quite frankly, we haven’t seen this much analysis over the definition of a word since Bill Clinton tried to question the meaning of what is is.

Dear readers, we regret to inform you that the new and by-no-means improved CBS Evening News is at it again. This time, turning an otherwise serviceable report on the disappearance of Washington’s birthday into a vessel with which to take a shot at President Donald Trump.

Our colleague Curtis Houck’s earlier writeup of the new but not improved CBS Evening News suggests that the ongoing turmoil is driven by the newscast’s new format, editorial choices, and anchor delivery. Tonight’s report on efforts to end the war in Ukraine confirms that thesis.

Puck’s Dylan Byers wrote Wednesday night in his latest must-read media article that the mood inside CBS News has grown even more grim as, not only are they facing a lawsuit from President Trump and an FCC investigation (and, we would add, a public and private struggle session over their far-left staffers objecting to a host’s basic decency to defend Israel), but network insiders are now…

So desperate are the media to discredit the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and by extension that of Elon Musk, that they are willing to resort to rank fear mongering. As Major Garrett’s report for the CBS Evening News proves, they also seem to believe that their viewers are morons.