Trailblazing CBS Anchor Connie Chung Despairs Over Watching Network 'Crash Into Crumbles'

Source: MEDIAite

Dec 4th, 2025, 6:14 pm


Sportswriter and podcaster Pablo Torre spoke to veteran news anchor Connie Chung on the most recent episode of his show, Pablo Torre Finds Out. Torre asked Chung to weigh in on the new ownership and leadership at CBS, where she co-anchored CBS Evening News. “What’s it like to watch CBS right now?” Torre asked.

Chung replied, “We don’t. I mean, I can’t. The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn’t hold value anymore. And what we end up doing is we, as consumers, trying to find the truth—we can’t find good old-fashioned facts. And it distresses me so terribly.”

“CBS is a whole different organization than I had worked for. CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners, Shari Redstone partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison’s son. And their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles. I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss. I don’t even know. I just don’t know.

“Yeah, but she’s—you know, we’ll see,” interjected Chung’s husband, Maury Povich. “It’s not a big “we’ll see” as if she could possibly restore—” Chung continued.

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