1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper exiting Sixty Minutes this after nearly twenty years 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: as a correspondent there. He joined the show in late 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: two thousand and six and has been reporting on some stories. 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Says that he wants to spend some time with his 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: family and his young children, and I totally can. 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: Agree with that. 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes you do have to prioritize your family over your career. 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, And if that's the real reason why Anderson Cooper 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: is leaving sixty Minutes, then good for him. But there's 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 2: been a massive shake up at CBS News, of which 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: sixty Minutes is part of. And this goes back to 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 2: CBS was purchased by Paramount, and Paramount instilled Barry Weiss 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: as the head of CBS News. If you don't know 14 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 2: who Barry Weiss is. She used to be on the 15 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: opinion board at the Wall Street Journal. She started asking 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 2: way too many questions for their comfort, and they kicked 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 2: her off the editorial board and she ended up leaving 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: that organization. And then she started her own independent news 19 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: website called Free Press and turned out to be a 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: pretty good little job that she did there, and she 21 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 2: sold it to CBS for I think about two hundred 22 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: million dollars and then they also made her the head 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 2: of CBS News. She's recently made a ton of changes. 24 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 2: Rush ruffled a lot of feathers at CBS News. There's 25 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: a new CBS News evening news anchor whose name I 26 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: can't think of off the top of my head, but a 27 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: lot of people were really upset about that she pulled 28 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 2: a story that sixty Minutes was going to do that 29 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: you know, looked unfavorable toward Donald Trump. They ended up 30 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: running the story about a month later. I'm gonna guess, 31 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: and moll Anderson Cooper says, spend more time with their family. 32 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 2: That's what everybody says when they leave a job. It 33 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: absolutely has to do it. That's shake up and the 34 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: changes that Barry Weiss has made the CBS News and 35 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 2: ultimately sixty Minutes, I'm guilty of that. 36 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: By the way, what part I'll freely admit that I've 37 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: used that excuse to leave a job before. 38 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: Sure we all do. Yeah, no, me too, I've used 39 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: it as well. Now I was spending time with my family. 40 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: Guess on my family. 41 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: That's the politically correct thing to do and to say. 42 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: And what does the company do when you leave? They 43 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 2: say Casey Daniels no longer works here, and we wish 44 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: her the best in her future endeavors, when the company 45 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,399 Speaker 2: probably doesn't wish you the best in your future endeavors. 46 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 2: It's just something nice and polite. This is this is 47 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: all the it's the game. We're all plasus. This is 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 2: all the polite dance that we all do at our workplaces. 49 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 2: We show up as workers and pretend we're happy to 50 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 2: be there, and the company pretends that they're happy to 51 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: send us a paycheck every two weeks, and then when 52 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: we leave, we say, oh, it's you know, spend more 53 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: time with my family. And the company says we wish 54 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: you the best, when of course they don't. 55 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: I gave you money and said, thank you, What more 56 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: do you want from me? That what you get from 57 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: your boss? 58 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: That is the employer, that's the agreement. That's the agreement. 59 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: I show that. That's why the companies have to bribe 60 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: you to go into work. They have to bribe you 61 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: with money to go to work, because if they didn't 62 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 2: give you the money, I'm not doing the work. 63 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: You do have to wonder is this going to hurt 64 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: CBS's credibility even more now with another shakeup of you know, 65 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: he is high profile. He may not agree with what 66 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: he says, but he's been doing it for twenty years. 67 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: In certain circles and certainly in journalists. Sir, or is 68 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 2: this gonna help them? Yeah, I was gonna say. 69 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: Your mother, Eyeball's gonna say, oh, thank god they got 70 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: rid of that. 71 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: Guy in journalist circles. CBS. You know, Anderson Cooper was 72 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 2: was well respected. A couple of things here. CBS News 73 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 2: has been in the toilet for decades, third or fourth 74 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: place in the evening news and the morning show. Now 75 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 2: you will people will sit here and say, oh, well, 76 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 2: sixty minutes still pull some good ratings. Yeah, you know 77 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: why sixty minutes ratings are so good their lead in? 78 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 2: Do you know what the lead in for six months 79 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: out of the year is For sixty minutes, the program. 80 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: Rules the survivor because I'd be watching this. 81 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: No, keep in mind, CBS News. 82 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: Is on the only show I watch on CBS. 83 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: CBS News is on Sunday evenings. NFL football is the 84 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: lead in. So when sixty News sixty minutes has thirty 85 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: five million viewers watching the NFL right before their program 86 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 2: airs and seven or eight million stick around to watch 87 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 2: sixty Minutes. Everybody's like, oh, sixty Minutes is doing great. 88 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: Look at these ratings we've got. Yeah, you had thirty 89 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: five million people watching the show before you, So I 90 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 2: think this is Look nobody thinks that CBS News is 91 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: a fair news organization. I don't think there's anybody that 92 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: if they speak the truth, sits here and says they're 93 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 2: totally right down the middle. No, of course, they've got 94 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: a liberal bias, and I think what Barry Weiss is 95 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 2: doing is trying to just move that pendulum back the 96 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: other way a little bit. Anderson Cooper is a huge liberal. 97 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: He's shown his bias on CNN in sixty Minutes. If 98 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: sixty Minutes wants a shot at being better than third place, 99 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 2: then they've got to make some changes. And look, if 100 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 2: these changes don't work out, who cares. You were in 101 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: third place to start things. If these changes don't work out, 102 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 2: you're still going to be in third place. You might 103 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 2: as well give something new a shot to see if 104 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 2: that works better than what you've been doing for decades. 105 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: For some month the wall, see if it sticks. 106 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 2: You said. 107 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: The NFL is the lead in and people are sticking 108 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: around because of that? Are they really sticking around or 109 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: are they just to falling asleep on the couch and 110 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: not changing The channel? 111 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: Still counts the same in the ratings. Doesn't matter if 112 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: you're sleeping, it still counts the same in the ratings. 113 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: That's true, you're listening to ninety three WYBC.