{"id":2237355,"date":"2026-01-16T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2237355"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:22:23","slug":"is-tony-dokoupils-cbs-evening-news-overhaul-worth-the-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/is-tony-dokoupils-cbs-evening-news-overhaul-worth-the-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Tony Dokoupil\u2019s \u2018CBS Evening News\u2019 Overhaul Worth the Trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Bari Weiss\u2019 handpicked anchor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8098276\/\">Tony Dokoupil<\/a> has made a fair share of headlines in his first 10 days since taking over \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0643897\/\">CBS Evening News<\/a>\u201d \u2014 including about the show\u2019s slipping ratings \u2014 but has the increased attention and scrutiny been worth the trouble for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0011682\/\">CBS News<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Following in Weiss\u2019 footsteps, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5677293\/\">Dokoupil<\/a>, who replaced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2040166\/\">John Dickerson<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2416828\/\">Maurice DuBois<\/a> less than a year into their tenure, has shaken up the program as it returns to a one-anchor format. But his first few weeks have drawn criticism for his congenial coverage of the Trump administration, his audacious vow to be more transparent than <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004847\/\">Walter Cronkite<\/a> and his \u201cboth sides\u201d coverage of topics such as the Jan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bari Weiss\u2019 handpicked anchor Tony Dokoupil has made a fair share of headlines in his first 10 days since taking over \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d \u2014 including about the show\u2019s slipping ratings \u2014 but has the increased attention and scrutiny been worth the trouble for CBS News? Following in Weiss\u2019 footsteps, Dokoupil, who replaced John Dickerson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2237356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2237355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Is-Tony-Dokoupils-\u2018CBS-Evening-News-Overhaul-Worth-the-Trouble.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237357,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237355\/revisions\/2237357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}