Overview
- Speaking on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, Chung said Shari Redstone and David Ellison are “greedy” and claimed their leadership caused CBS to “crash into crumbles.”
- She criticized the choice of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News and expressed doubt that Weiss can restore the division to its former standards.
- Chung said today’s news environment is saturated with opinion and lamented the decline of “good, old-fashioned facts.”
- Her comments follow the $8.4 billion Paramount–Skydance deal, after which Ellison installed Weiss to run the newsroom and purchased her commentary outlet, The Free Press.
- During the podcast, Chung rejected husband Maury Povich’s suggestion to “wait and see,” after he called a recent 60 Minutes interview with President Donald Trump “decent.”