Former “CBS Night Information” anchor Connie Chung has taken on the “grasping homeowners” of her previous community amid its rightward shift in current months.
Chung — on Thursday’s episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” — described CBS as a “complete totally different group” from the time she labored there earlier than calling out Shari Redstone, who bought her majority stake in mum or dad firm Paramount International to David Ellison’s Skydance Media in a $8.4 billion deal over the summer time.
“Their greed has induced the venerable CBS to really disassemble, to crash into crumbles,” mentioned Chung, the second girl ever to anchor a serious U.S. nightly information program.
She proceeded to chuckle earlier than name-dropping Bari Weiss, the conservative journalist who lately turned CBS Information’ new editor-in-chief.
“I don’t know what to name Bari Weiss, I simply don’t know,” she mentioned.
Moments earlier, Chung advised Torre that she will’t watch CBS now, including that the “paradigm has fully modified in information” and it distresses her that folks “can’t discover good old school info” anymore.
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Chung joins a lot of critics who’ve criticized CBS and its management within the months since Paramount agreed to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit in opposition to “60 Minutes.”
The lawsuit was broadly seen as frivolous, with critics likening the settlement to the corporate kissing Trump’s ring. The transfer got here simply forward of Paramount’s merger with Skydance, which required the administration’s approval.
“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert known as the settlement a “massive fats bribe” in one among his monologues, remarks that gained renewed curiosity after CBS introduced its determination to cancel his present, citing a “monetary determination.”
Chung famous that late CBS proprietor William S. Paley as soon as careworn the necessity for an autonomous information division that didn’t need to “fear concerning the backside line” throughout his possession.
She pointed to Frank Stanton’s time as CBS president, too, noting that the chief went earlier than Congress “time and time once more” to defend the Fourth Property.
“Now we have now an entire dismantling of that type of social accountability, that we’re watchdogs. We reporters are watchdogs of presidency. It’s our job to report data that’s not fed to us,” she mentioned.