CBS Critiques Itself Over "Legitimizing" Woody Allen Interview
hollywoodreporter.comViewers of CBS Sunday Morning this week saw something unusual on the broadcast network: A segment critical of its own work. The program featured a segment — led by correspondent Erin Moriarty — about so-called "cancel culture," using examples of controversial musicians, comedians and filmmakers like Louis C.K., Michael Jackson, and of course, Woody Allen.
What made the segment notable, however, was that it took aim at an interview with Allen conducted by CBS News, and which is streaming as of today on the Paramount+. "If someone is there being interviewed, they're given a kind of legitimacy just by the fact that they're being interviewed on a big newscast,"art critic Aruna D'Souza says of the Allen interview in the segment broadcast Sunday..
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