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MAGA-coded CBS Evening News<\/i> anchor Tony Dokoupil has been humiliated even on vacation after it emerged that his summer stand-in had pulled off the show\u2019s best ratings in months.<\/p>\n

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The embattled Dokoupil, 45, has anchored the flagship news program since January, a stretch that has coincided with mounting scrutiny of the broadcast under CBS News boss Bari Weiss, the anti-woke former blogger who has done her best to make the network more Trump-friendly.<\/p>\n

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Weiss has heavily vetted output and axed a half-dozen senior producers and correspondents at the network\u2019s flagship show, 60 Minutes<\/i>, in what insiders refer to as \u201cBlack Thursday.\u201d She has also installed inexperienced lackeys in crucial roles. For example, 49-year-old TV news virgin Nick Bilton is now the executive editor of the storied newsmagazine. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Weiss\u2019s tenure, and Dokoupil\u2019s, have been calamitous, so when ratings for the prior week were finalized earlier this week, CBS News recorded a rare win. Dokoupil\u2019s show cleanly surpassed 4 million viewers for the first time since March\u2014but with Matt Gutman at the helm.<\/p>\n

Gutman, who joined from ABC News earlier this year, has been filling in while Dokoupil, who is married to MS NOW\u2019s Katy Tur, is out on a two-week vacation. <\/p>\n

During Gutman\u2019s first week in the chair in July, he averaged 4.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings data obtained by Status, the best-rated week for the program in 17 weeks. Dokoupil, by contrast, has not topped 4 million viewers since the week of March 30, when he averaged 4.2 million.<\/p>\n

The slump comes amid a string of high-profile mishaps for Dokoupil. The biggest arrived on the Fourth of July, when CBS aired a three-hour primetime special from the National Mall marking America\u2019s 250th anniversary. <\/p>\n

Severe weather forced an evacuation of the site where Dokoupil and co-anchor Nischelle Turner were stationed, and according to the New York Post, insiders described the resulting broadcast as \u201camateur hour\u201d and \u201cdisastrous,\u201d claiming the anchors spent nearly an hour waiting in the rain for direction while backup anchors filled airtime from the studio. <\/p>\n

By the time Dokoupil and Turner abandoned the site and relocated to CBS\u2019s D.C. studio, nearly two-thirds of the special had already aired. \u201cThe broadcast left some of the staffers mortified,\u201d one source told the Post, while another called CBS News a \u201crudderless ship.\u201d CBS pushed back, insisting its contingency plans worked and viewers had received uninterrupted coverage.<\/p>\n

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That came days after another on-air blunder, when a report about Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs and speculation over a potential presidential pardon mistakenly aired a photograph of Kanye West instead, an error later scrubbed from digital and streaming versions of the broadcast. <\/p>\n

Dokoupil also ran into trouble during CBS\u2019s coverage of President Donald Trump\u2019s May trip to China, when the network failed to secure him a visa, forcing him to anchor from Taiwan instead of Beijing. \u201cIt was a mistake,\u201d Dokoupil told the Wall Street Journal in June. \u201cSomeone should\u2019ve got a visa.\u201d <\/p>\n

That same trip descended into chaos when a cameraman suffered a medical emergency on air, cutting the broadcast to B-roll mid-sentence as Dokoupil asked, \u201cIs he OK?\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC News anchor David Muir was also on vacation last week, which likely nudged some viewers toward NBC News and CBS News and gave Gutman a boost. But substitute anchors typically perform worse than the regular anchor, making his numbers stand out regardless. The situation has also raised eyebrows over why Dokoupil, just eight months into the role, would take a two-week break at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer is when the second and third place networks try to make progress against the first place anchor who goes on vacation,\u201d a veteran television executive told Status. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case the third place anchor took off for two weeks\u2014a baffling move given his collapsing show\u2014and his substitute outclassed him in the ratings.\u201d <\/p>\n

The executive called it \u201canother dagger in Tony\u2019s neck\u201d and a \u201cmissed opportunity\u201d for Dokoupil to have lured viewers away from Muir himself. Inside CBS News, Status reported, Gutman\u2019s win has generated buzz in the newsroom, with staffers describing the 48-year-old as likable and easy to work with.<\/p>\n

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The network has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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