Thursday marked the final episode of the CBS Evening News in its Norah O’Donnell era following five and a half years in which she anchored the newscast during some of the more consequential times in our country’s history, but also oversaw CBS cementing itself in third-place for network news and plenty of liberal bias (such as these biased openings towards the end of the 2024 campaign).
Unsurprisingly, the final episode featured plenty of empty platitudes from O’Donnell about CBS’s importance and a cameo from billionaire Democratic Party surrogate and CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King’s best friend, Oprah Winfrey.
O’Donnell began the final segment by saying she had no clue “who it is” that’d “help us look back.”
After the video, O’Donnell said it was “the honor of a lifetime to anchor this legacy broadcast” as “the CBS…
