Tony Dokoupil’s first broadcast as CBS Evening News anchor was supposed to come on Monday, January 5, but the journalist is now making his debut on Saturday, January 3 — and already, he is spurring backlash online.
On New Year’s Day, CBS News posted a video of Dokoupil sharing his mission statement for CBS Evening News. In that video, Dokoupil said that legacy media has too often “missed the story” by “[taking] into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American” and “[putting] too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites.”
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