“We need to *be the news* for these 10 days,” CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss told staff in a note ahead of the much-ballyhooed two-week “Live From America” road show that would mark Tony Dokoupil’s debut as the CBS Evening News anchor.
And while Weiss and Dokoupil have very much made themselves the story amid this latest reboot of the nightly news program once manned by Walter Cronkite, all of that buzz – negative and otherwise – has not translated into television viewers.
