Incoming CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil told viewers to make him \u201cearn\u201d their trust in a statement, just days before his new gig kicks off.<\/p>\n
Dokoupil wrote a Thursday op-ed in which he discussed his new role (beginning on January 5) and his own issues with the media, declaring, \u201cDon\u2019t trust me. Make me earn it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot has changed since the first person sat in the Evening News chair. For me, the biggest difference is this: people don\u2019t trust us like they used to,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dokoupil noted stories over the years that people have brought up to him, from the Iraq War to Covid and more. He wrote that he agrees with critics who believe the media has not always reported reality.<\/p>\n \u201cThe point is that on too many stories the press missed the story. Because we\u2019ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Dokoupil\u2019s new gig was announced<\/a> last month after Bari Weiss took over as editor-in-chief for CBS News.<\/p>\n Dokoupil assured viewers that no one, including Weiss, will be influencing his reporting.<\/p>\n \u201cSo here\u2019s my promise to you as long as I sit in this chair: you come first. Not advertisers. Not politicians. Not corporate interests. And, yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS.\u00a0I report for you,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhich means I tell you what I know, when I know it and how I know it. And when I get it wrong, I\u2019ll tell you that too.\u201d<\/p>\n Dokoupil told viewers to hold him accountable for telling the \u201ctruth\u201d in his new role.<\/p>\n \u201cI love talking to people about what works in this country, what doesn\u2019t, and not only what should change, but the good ideas that never should,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI think telling the truth is one of them. Hold me to it.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Tony Dokoupil Tells Viewers \u2018Don\u2019t Trust Me, Make Me Earn It\u2019 Ahead of New CBS Role<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incoming CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil told viewers to make him \u201cearn\u201d their trust in a statement,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[186334,88,149597,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-382003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cbs-evening-news-anchor","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tony-dokoupil","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}