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This morning the show marked Al Roker's 30th year with them. They brought in meteorologists from all over the country to help celebrate:

I don't think any aspect of CBS News is out of reach of Bari Weiss. Expect more podcasters on Sunday morning.

"NYPost is reporting that the new MAGA CBS Evening News is on pace for its "lowest-rated January since at least 2000" and that CBS Mornings is also heading for its "lowest rated month on record" while CBS Saturday Morning is on pace for its lowest rated January ever.

In the future lawsuit WINK: "we communicated internally to protect staff..." Who are apparently getting harassed in DMs. It goes both ways Devitt chose to go online and lie he was blindsided, when in reality he wasn't. WINK warned him repeatedly going back to 2024, and coworkers reported him to HR. He could have gone to his page and said he decided a year ago not to renew, that he and WINK decided to separate 2 months early before his contract expired, and that he will have an exciting announcement soon. Now he's making it sound as if his FB page was taken by WINK, when it could be Meta disabling it because he was verified as a WINK News asset. I wonder if his agent dropped him, he's not behaving like someone who is being advised

And now WINK has escalated to some kind of DEFCON since the station possibly has removed his Facebook page; it's standard operating procedure but a little petty.

I used to be opposed to talent developing a personal following on social media. I thought it encouraged reporters to be celebrities rather than journalists and encouraged the audience to seek personal narrative over professional work. I've evolved to think that it's good for journalists to build a following as linear tv gets more irrelevant and content creators get larger viewership. It also allows journalists to get monetization and cover stories they like without the intercessor of a news organization or the control of a news director. Social media can also be a source of income and an outlet for one's work during periods of unemployment like being in between contracts. I'm an advocate of separate social medias pages. A private page for all your personal stuff, and a public page for the journalist's work and brand. Totally agree that social media boundaries must be set. News stations literally leave the comments sections open with no check on sexual comments or racist trolls. Just some thoughts, not the gospel.

The problem is most layman viewers do not distinguish affiliates from O&Os. Much like Fox, the reputation of any station with the CBS logo will suffer because of this. I knew someone who was concerned about watching Action News Jax in Jacksonville because of the CBS/FOX duopoly and I had to explain that they are just affiliates.

Thanks for letting me know. I'm half Puerto Rican (Boricua!), so this is HUGE news.

KBOI chief meteorologist Roland Steadham has passed away in a plane crash.

As for the meeting, there were supposedly going to be even more staff cuts while adding 18 paid contributors (re: podcasters): https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689849/after-rocky-start-bari-weiss-to-cut-staff-add-commentators-at-cbs-news