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This is the CBS Evening News thread.

What, the Australian version?

The occasional “cop roots out bad cop” storyline is recycled on occasion. Always, the main characters are on the right side, catching the bad ones. That’s what, one episode this season with a bad cops story on SVU, making for a ratio of something like 21:1? Shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy skewer everyone. The left gets mocked as does the right. The bias only seems to show up when someone is on the receiving end of a particular joke. CBS’s scripted shows are primarily the most formulaic procedurals imaginable. Not left, not right. More like paint-by-numbers solve-the-crime shows. The prosecutors on the Law and Order franchise being some vast left-wing bias is kind of comical. The writing is also paint by numbers, even moreso with that particular template. When one of the main prosecutors is akin to Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner, then there’s something to it. ABC is more focused on the preposterous emergencies of the week on 911 and it’s very country music spinoff. Grays Amatomy is basically a soap opera keeping tabs on who’s boinking who this week punctuated also by preposterous scenarios. I mean maybe Abbott Elementsry being a principally Black cast is somehow liberal, but the stories are just making fun of workplaces with the occasional Philadelphia Easter egg thrown in. And as mentioned elsewhere above, the plethora of country music specials an awards dwarfs just about all other genres of music combined.

I love how many times y'all have gotten your hopes up for Toni over the years, to get burned EVERY time. It's my favorite every 3-to-5-year tradition.

I can agree with that, though I wish all networks would drop the BREAKING NEWS tag for mostly every story that they showcase... when it clearly isn't.

ET and Inside Edition are still on at 7 and 7:30pm, respectively. Not only that, Ginger and Matt also do the traditional 10pm online. I mean, WTH WKMG? You know you got Lisa Bell, right? And she's only on at 5pm? Don't get me wrong, Ginger and Matt have fantastic chemistry, but come on, they can't do them all. You gotta put Lisa Bell in there too in the mix, right?! As of this month, I believe, Martha and Greg now do all WFTV/WRDQ evening newscasts from 4-6:30 and 10-11:35pm. You're right on WOFL, and it seems like WESH has the deepest of benches, which makes it work to mix in their newscasts, same with their morning crew.

Or like the 1st Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.... Otherwise, this station has been a dumpster fire, even under Meredith. Has Gray really cleaned up this place that much?

I don't want to hear any freedom of speech gripes, but time to turn down the politics. We're getting way off-course, if we're analyzing episodes of freaking Law & Order. Consider this a friendly reminder to keep this more CBSEN-focused, with politics relevant to the news department's moves.

Left-wing entertainment? Good lord. Half the shows are law-and-order (both “literally” Law & Order, and otherwise) where the police (or FBI, et al) are the upstanding, always-right force for good. CBS basically put Blue Bloods’ faith-and-family hour into a new city. Tim Allen is far from a left-winger over on ABC. Shows like Abbott Elementary are just goofy enough diversions about the foibles of workplace life. Reality wise, who sings better than who, or who is under what costume are now left wing? Kevin O’Leary, arguably the most prominent part of Shark Tank with Cuban gone, is left wing? Heck, Price is Right, the most mainstream, vanilla game show imaginable is still part of the prime time lineup beyond its daytime run.

FOX News is very successful demonizing half the country, but they are a national propaganda outlet, they survive on subscription fees / national viewers and don't need to worry about getting viewers in major cities that are overwhelmingly left wing like a general broadcast network does. The entertainment programming on all the broadcast networks, from CBS to FOX, is left wing for a reason. They know these left wing shows don't appeal to "half the country" but they appeal to viewers in the major cities where they own stations and produce newscasts. It makes zero sense from a financial standpoint for a broadcast network like CBS to turn their news operation into far right propaganda, if the United States wasn't under an evil far right authoritarian Government this never would be happening. Polls just came out that the majority of the country wants to abolish ICE so the half the country is evil and wants this argument doesn't even work anymore, ICE has become too evil for the trump voting demons.

The New York Post and NBCUniversal themselves are reporting that “NBC Nightly News” notched a rare ratings win over longtime rival “ABC World News Tonight” in the prized 25-54 demographic last week — as “CBS Evening News” fell further behind with new anchor Tony Dokoupil at the helm. This marked its first weekly win in this key demographic in six years, attracting an average of 992,000 viewers aged 25-54 in the first week of this year between January 5-11, slightly surpassing ABC’s 989,000 viewers according to Nielsen. A lot of viewers are fatigued from Muir’s in-your-face approach and the propagandist news vision that Dokoupil has to endure. Llamas is straight to the point with the headlines and hones in on those daily issues that people in and out of that 25-54 group can relate to.

Exactly. I think it's pretty clear Skydance knew this would hurt the ratings and destroy the credibility of CBS News, but turning it into evil far right propaganda puts the company in good graces with an evil authoritarian government, and that's all that matters to them. The private media in the rest of the western world is covering the United States Government much differently than the private media in the United States (outside of MS NOW). I guarantee if the Canadian Government had law enforcement coming in to Canadian cities terrorizing and torturing people and shooting people in the face the coverage would not be remotely close to what we are seeing on the American evening network newscasts. A Canadian network would not allow the prime minster of Canada to break into the season finale of Survivor to talk about his "accomplishments" of the past year. CBS News ratings are crashing, their credibility and brand is destroyed, they are losing millions every year, and Skydance doesn't care, they are using it as a tool to get special treatment from the evil corrupt government so they can buy Warner Brothers Discovery, the fact that Skydance leadership shares the deplorable views of MAGA is just an added bonus for them.

So what did they do on Mondays? Air the previous Friday's episode? Or a cut-down version of the weekend edition (which I'm pretty sure is an hour)?