{"id":5166,"date":"2026-08-10T06:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:36:30","slug":"katie-couric-speaks-out-on-total-embarrassment-at-maga-coded-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5166","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric Speaks Out on \u2018Total Embarrassment\u2019 at MAGA-Coded CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Katie Couric has delivered a grim assessment of her former network as its Trump-friendly bosses skew its news to please the president and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5165\">Top Trump Lawyer Ditches the White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Couric, 69, made TV history as the first solo femaleanchor of a national weekly evening news broadcast when she replaced Dan Rather at <i>CBS Evening News<\/i> in 2006. She anchored the show until 2011.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She has now formed her own independent multimedia company, Katie Couric Media, and hosts the <i>Next Question<\/i> podcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CBS\u2019 parent company, Paramount Skydance, is now under the control of MAGA ally David Ellison, son of Trump donor Larry Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>The younger billionaire installed MAGA-curious Bari Weiss as CBS News\u2019 editor-in-chief last October, leading to major leadership changes including at its flagship <i>60 Minutes<\/i> and the<i> CBS Evening News<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Her first programming move saw Tony Dokoupil hired as the new anchor for the <i>Evening News<\/i>. After initial stumbles during his chaotic first week on air, his presence has not led to a major ratings increase for the critical evening broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>CBS also revealed in July 2025 that it was axing <i>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, <\/i>which had been regularly critical of Trump, who in turn frequently called for the show to be taken off air.<\/p>\n<p>The network announced that it would not renew Colbert\u2019s contract just days after he called its parent company\u2019s payout to Trump to settle his <i>60 Minutes <\/i>lawsuit a \u201cbig fat bribe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Weiss oversaw a bloodbath of firing staff at <i>60 Minutes<\/i> known as \u201cBlack Thursday,\u201d she installed 49-year-old TV news virgin Nick Bilton as the executive editor of the program, which returns to air next month.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for a scorecard on how CBS has handled \u201cpressure\u201d from the Trump administration during his second term as president, Couric told Status she rated it a \u201cD,\u201d adding, \u201cIt\u2019s not an F.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she added that reports of stories being pulled at the last minute to appease the White House were a \u201ctotal embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5164\">Trump Smears Olympian Who Was Framed in Green Slime Vendetta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, <i>60 Minutes <\/i>reporter Cecilia Vega directly addressed times that the new bosses at CBS News, including Weiss, attempted to interfere in the flagship news show.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing suggested changes to stories about ICE raids and cuts to SNAP benefits to include more pro-Trump administration content, Vega said, \u201cNever in my career until now have I felt that those edits, those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Couric added that a lot of people \u201care still really concerned\u201d about the seismic changes being made at <i>60 Minutes<\/i>, and noted that after reading the accounts of fired reporters, including Scott Pelley, \u201csome of the stories from behind the scenes were very troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the Weiss-installed Dokupil and his slipping ratings, Couric called the decline in TV viewership \u201ca trend line of network evening newscasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she added that the attention around Weiss and \u201cthe chaos\u201d in the halls of CBS News would not be helping the show\u2019s popularity with viewers. Couric added that firing Stephen Colbert and axing his popular late night show \u201cmight not have helped\u201d ratings either. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that probably has hurt the morning show, because TV viewers leave the channel on overnight,\u201d Couric said.<\/p>\n<p>The media identity said that the influence of David Ellison on CBS News and potentially CNN was \u201cvery concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellison\u2019s Paramount Skydance is attempting a takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, which would include CNN, who Trump regularly calls \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom everything I\u2019ve read, Larry Ellison is a big supporter of Donald Trump, and that is concerning. Having control of too many media outlets is not a good thing. It\u2019s cause for concern how they\u2019re going to manage CNN and who\u2019s going to be in charge there,\u201d Couric said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the results were \u201cnot good for journalists, and it\u2019s definitely not good for viewers, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5163\">CNN Data Guru Humiliates Trump After Disastrous Jobs Report<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has reached out to CBS News for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Couric has delivered a grim assessment of her former network as its Trump-friendly bosses skew its news to please the president and his administration. 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