The Clock May Be Ticking for Bari Weiss at CBS

Archer's Line Podcast · May 20, 2026 · 5m

There’s an old rule in television news that eventually overrides everything else: ratings.

You can survive criticism for a while. You can survive bad headlines. You can survive angry staff meetings, leaked memos, and media reporters circling like vultures.

But if the audience disappears? That’s when the knives come out.

And right now, the audience is disappearing at CBS News.

The ratings for the CBS Evening News have fallen hard in the Bari Weiss era. Multiple industry reports describe historic lows for the broadcast under anchor Tony Dokoupil, who became the face of Weiss’s overhaul of the…