Tonight’s evening news coverage of the reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump bordered on hysterical, to the tune of a combined 25 minutes and 34 seconds. Of those, only about a minute and a half was devoted to explaining things in a manner the public could understand.
Watch as CBS MoneyWatch Correspondent Kelly O’Grady calmly explains how Trump’s tariffs are intended to do, as opposed to the usual hair-on-fire reporting:
A lone voice of reason and cool headedness among all the tariff hysteria in the evening news: CBS’s @TheKellyOGrady. pic.twitter.com/PJ64LT0V6a
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 4, 2025
MAURICE DuBOIS: MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O’Grady joins us now to walk through some of the scenarios as to how this might actually play out. So Kelly, let’s start with a best-case scenario.
KELLY O’GRADY: Yes, so when it…
