A flagship American news show has had enough of ‘academics and elites’ and these 17 shocked and stunned reactions surely said it best
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Great, a news channel saying they’re not gonna rely on expert or academic analysis because they want to appeal to unnamed/unidentified ‘average Americans.’
Our mainstream media is broken.https://t.co/20UUcW0EJi https://t.co/mGaA8WJYAF
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 1, 2026
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You can feel the conservative media bullshit oozing through this entire video
You had a good run CBS https://t.co/NDbvH7aFkD
— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) January 1, 2026
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Oh good. So now you’re going to talk to “the average American”…right after a decade of lecturing them, gaslighting them, and calling them extremists for noticing reality.
Can’t wait for CBS to bravely report things like groceries being expensive, that crime actually exists,…
— Flopping Aces (@FloppingAces) January 1, 2026
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Big ‘who else is tired of only pilots flying this plane’ vibe. https://t.co/oWNN22PFS5
— Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) January 2, 2026
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The average American is dumb as shit. It’s not your fucking job to tell them what they want to hear. It’s your job to tell them the truth.
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) January 1, 2026
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Such bs spin to cover up corporate surrender to Trump pressure. “I promise to report back to you the random ideas of uninformed people, give that equal weight to knowledge, science and facts, and pretend that we are doing a public service” https://t.co/lAISGOF4Le
— Bruce Anderson (@bruceanderson) January 1, 2026
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This country will only begin to recover once we toss this stupid notion that the “everyman” can do journalism and we go back to having actual experts and qualified individuals leading the discourse. https://t.co/8Rkl5HJWvU
— Destiny | Steven Bonnell II (@TheOmniLiberal) January 1, 2026
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The audience is the average American but the validator of accuracy is not the audience. The customer is not always right, especially in the news business. https://t.co/T4i1TcO4vJ
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) January 1, 2026
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“we put too much weight in the analysis of academics … and not enough on you.”
CBS was bought by a billionaire Trump ally who installed a right-wing propagandist to oversee the news — and this is their pivot from fact-based reporting to propaganda. https://t.co/IzlQJrW5OL
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) January 1, 2026
And finally …
It’s that famous New Yorker cartoon brought to life courtesy of Bari Weiss and the “new” CBS News https://t.co/gEfyvlCDmn pic.twitter.com/Qc0fByvRC0
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) January 1, 2026
Source @CBSEveningNews