The new anchor of the CBS Evening News is on the side of the GOP, first broadcast reveals.

“On his hurriedly moved-up debut Saturday night, before his official start date, the anchor covered the U.S. capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro almost exclusively through a lengthy but unchallenging interview of U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, one in which the administration’s perspective was aired so thoroughly as to raise the question of when an interview becomes a press release. (In this aspect, Dokoupil’s work certainly suited the Weiss doctrine: The news chief’s first big scandal on the job arose right before Christmas when she held a “60 Minutes” segment over its not sufficiently representing the side of the administration, who had declined comment in the first place. For Weiss, it may not be news if the nation’s current leadership doesn’t get an unchallenged say.)

And in his official first broadcast on Jan. 5, Dokoupil betrayed a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.” [READ MORE]