Puck’s Dylan Byers wrote Wednesday night in his latest must-read media article that the mood inside CBS News has grown even more grim as, not only are they facing a lawsuit from President Trump and an FCC investigation (and, we would add, a public and private struggle session over their far-left staffers objecting to a host’s basic decency to defend Israel), but network insiders are now forlorn over what they view as a dreadfully boring new format for the CBS Evening News.
In “CBS News’ Blue Period,” Byers used Tuesday’s impromptu Oval Office Q&A between Elon Musk, Trump, and that day’s White House press pool as a jumping off point to voice internal angst with the CBS Evening News’s newsmagazine format as it chose to lead off with a lengthy report on the pitiful state of American education.
Byers noted that co-anchor John Dickerson started…
