CBS Put ‘Evening News’ Through Massive Overhaul. Now It Needs People to Watch
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The venerable “CBS Evening News” has, for many of its viewers, been something consumed along with dinner.
In recent weeks, the show has served up reports that could stop someone in mid-bite. Correspondent Nikki Battiste recently traveled to New Jersey, where CBS News cameras were allowed into the bedroom of an ALS patient on the day she had chosen to die.
The video stopped just before the woman drank medicine that would put her into a deep sleep before passing on — all legal under state law.
Half a world away, foreign correspondent Debora Patta recently managed to get into Sudan after two years of trying, and delivered a searing report on the plight of children there who aren’t getting the help once expected from the now-shuttered United States Agency for International Development.
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