\u201cCBS News is a wreck,\u201d Letterman said in a video<\/a> posted Friday on his YouTube channel. \u201cIt\u2019s just gone.\u201d<\/p>\n Letterman accused CBS News, which recently installed conservative commentator Bari Weiss<\/a> as editor-in-chief, of abandoning the legacy it built with well-regarded broadcasters like Edward Murrow.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was that mentality that drove the integrity of CBS News that has been trampled on, pissed on, and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over,\u201d Letterman added.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I am at a point now where it really is hurting my feelings because I\u2019m sick and tired of people saying, \u2018Oh, wait until those midterms.\u2019 Kids, we\u2019re far downstream from the midterms having any effect on this.\u201d<\/p>\n The Independent has contacted CBS<\/a> for comment.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Letterman accused his former network of allowing \u2018idiots\u2019 in management to undermine the legendary reputation it established under broadcasters like Ed Murrow (Getty Images for RRHOF)<\/p>\n The network has been under scrutiny over the last year or so, thanks to a series of business moves that critics saw as undermining its editorial integrity to be more friendly to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Last summer, CBS News\u2019s then-parent company paid to settle<\/a> a lawsuit from Donald Trump over the editing of a 60 Minutes episode, as the company\u2019s pending merger with Skydance, which needed federal approval, was in the balance. <\/p>\n By August, Paramount\u2019s merger officially closed<\/a> with Skydance, a company headed by David Ellison, son of the billionaire Oracle co-founder and Trump supporter Larry Ellison.<\/p>\n The new leadership soon installed Weiss to lead CBS News, who lacked broadcast TV news experience and was previously known for founding The Free Press, a news site that often skewered the \u201cwoke\u201d politics of the left.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Under the leadership of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, CBS News has made controversial moves like pausing a segment on Trump administration deportations to a brutal Salvadoran prison (Getty)<\/p>\n Under Weiss, the network has made a number of controversial calls, prompting anger from newsroom staff, they have told<\/a> The Independent.<\/p>\n Those included pulling a highly anticipated 60 Minutes<\/a> segment shortly before airtime about the Trump administration\u2019s summary deportation of hundreds of migrants to a brutal Salvadorian prison<\/a> where they said they were tortured<\/a>.<\/p>\n Under new CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, the broadcast has embraced a more flattering tone towards the administration, according to critics.<\/p>\n![\"Letterman](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2245937079.jpg\")
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