The new and revamped CBS Evening News emerged after much hype and a treacly send-off for its prior anchor, Norah O’Donnell. After watching its maiden broadcast one is left wondering: is it too late for Norah to come back?
Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson now anchor the newscast from a beautiful, warmly lit new set in New York. The focus has shifted in terms of the stories shown, so the newscast didn’t open with the usual political story out of Washington. In fact, there were NO stories out of Washington. In addition to no Norah, there was no Nancy Cordes, Weijia Jiang, Scott MacFarlane, Nikole Killion, Robert Costa or Caitlin Huey-Burns. In the words of George W. Bush, this is some weird ****.
The newscast opened with a report on the freakout over DeepSeek AI (with an appearance by Margaret Brennan), followed by a report on Chinese spies targeting…
