The New York Post had a juicy scoop Thursday about the newly formatted CBS Evening News – with new co-anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois and fewer-but-more-in-depth stories – has been such a failure in just four weeks they’re crying uncle.
Media reporter Alexandra Steigrad revealed CBS “is reverting to a more news-driven broadcast as ratings tumble” and backing up last week’s reporting from Puck’s Dylan Byers that the more sedate and mini-60 Minutes-like format suffered a huge blow when the February 11 show led off with over six-minutes on America’s education system instead of Elon Musk’s tour de force media Q&A in the Oval office.
Steigrad explained:
“They’ve realized they can’t ignore the news,” said an industry insider of the third-place show. “You can’t really ignore the tsunami of news that is coming out of the White…
