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The broadcast news vet (and one-time Fox News staffer) talked with The Daily Beast about his at-times distressing new book gazing into the abyss of the Big Lie.
The “Late Show” host was none too pleased that CBS News had hired the former Trump minion—or “craven toady to a tyrant”—as a contributor.
The pair will co-lead CBS News as the company seeks to merge its broadcast news division and its local TV stations.
The game of musical chairs involving CBS and ABC has not been without its share of fireworks—namely, a troubled relationship between Zirinsky and her outgoing deputy.
The pressure is on for news outlets to avoid giving air to the president’s fact-free election night declarations, but as one exec asks, “How does one not cover it?”
Sources said the networks have given DNC officials a new reason they won’t air their event in full: Because they’d also have to air Trump’s in full—lies, warts, and all.
Since jumping from Fox News to CBS last year, journalist Catherine Herridge has frustrated Democrats and some of her own co-workers, who worry she pushes “GOP talking points.”