'CBS Evening News' producer fired amid turbulent relaunch

A seasoned shaper astatine “CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil” was fired this week aft raising concerns implicit the editorial absorption of the program.

Javier Guzman, who has been with CBS News since 2017, was dismissed Wednesday from his presumption arsenic elder producer, according to radical acquainted with the enactment who were not authorized to comment. A CBS News typical said the institution does not sermon unit matters.

Guzman is said to person expressed disagreement implicit the editorial absorption of the evening newscast which has undergone a revamp nether CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. Guzman did not respond to a petition for comment.

The abrupt exit connected the 3rd time of Dokoupil’s tenure added to a increasing cognition that the programme is disconnected to an inauspicious start. Media manufacture newsletters and the tabloids person go repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.

The latest iteration of the storied newscast has generated antagonistic feedback connected societal media for its content. On Tuesday, that included a breezy salute to Secretary of State Marco Rubio successful a bid of memes. It was a questionable prime coming days aft a deadly U.S. subject onslaught connected Venezuela, wherever peculiar forces captured the country’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

The aforesaid occurrence was besides blasted for a little point noting the day of the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 statesmanlike election. The presumption of the historical lawsuit from five-years agone was presented arsenic a quality of sentiment betwixt President Trump and Democratic leaders successful Congress.

The segments precocious the communicative among galore media critics that Weiss is chasing aft MAGA-friendly viewers and looking to delight the White House arsenic genitor institution Paramount pursues the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. She joined the web successful October aft Paramount acquired her integer quality tract The Free Press, which often decries the excesses of the governmental left.

On Wednesday, the time aft Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis pistillate was changeable successful her conveyance by an ICE officer, “CBS Evening News” went up with a planned travel to Dallas arsenic portion of a multi-city circuit to beforehand Dokoupil arsenic the caller anchor.

While Dokoupil has said helium wants “CBS Evening News” to absorption much connected the viewpoints of regular citizens and little connected “elites” based successful New York and Washington, his Dallas sojourn included a chopper thrust with Jerry Jones, the billionaire proprietor of the Dallas Cowboys. There was besides a little conception connected the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

Dokoupil did people a newsworthy interrogation that time with ICE main Tom Homan, who notably held backmost connected commenting connected the fatal shooting of Good portion Trump and different medication officials rushed to telephone her a home terrorist. The programme besides rapidly pivoted by flying to Minneapolis wherever it focused heavy connected the absorption of shaken Minneapolis residents and anti-ICE protesters to the incident.

Ratings for Dokoupil’s broadcast are somewhat supra the season-to-date mean according to Nielsen, but stay good down “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir” and “NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas.”

Dokoupil was co-host of “CBS Mornings” earlier joining “CBS Evening News” wherever helium replaced the anchor duo of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois.