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The Mark Simone Show

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The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Marty from Connecticut called in to say CBS’s news reporting isn't great. Mark from Lake Hopatcong, NJ, phoned in about the outrageous financial gouging happening in New Jersey.

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0:00.0

get mark on demand by setting a preset for his podcast on the iheart radio app now back to mark simone

0:08.5

on w o r hey let's make some calls 800 321 0710 is the number 800 321 0 710 let's make some calls. 800. 321. 0710 is the number.

0:21.8

800.

0:22.8

321.

0:23.9

0710.

0:24.9

Let's go to Marty in Connecticut.

0:26.4

Marty, how you doing?

0:27.9

I'm good, man.

0:29.1

I'm talking about the death of CBS News on CBS Good Morning yesterday.

0:35.9

And the guy who reports is really the silver-haired guy.

0:39.5

I can't even watch him.

0:40.5

But he missed a lot of points.

0:42.4

Like Walter Cronkite, he soundbited him once,

0:47.2

didn't talk about the guy who discovered CBS Sunday morning.

0:51.8

And you can see the inconsistency of this awful.

0:56.1

I used to listen to the eighth out of New York all the time, but they're always so bad.

1:02.4

So you just found out CBS News is not CBS News anymore?

1:05.9

Yeah, I don't listen to the news too often, but I watch it.

1:08.7

No, it's a terrible, it's nothing, nothing like it was. It's totally biased. It's just awful. That's why they brought in Barry Weiss. Maybe she can get it back, it's never going to be what it was, but get it back in that direction. You got to remember back then television had millions and millions and millions of you, you know, Walter Cronk had 20 million people who watch them at night. Nightly news, now you're lucky if you get 4 million. Even these Sunday shows, you know, it used to be 10 million, 12 million, 15. Now the Sunday shows are 1 million. So you're not going to be able to, you know, pay for a big newsstand. You know, back in the good old days had Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevry, Bob Schiefer, you had Dan Redd.

1:44.7

He had a million giant names, Roger Mud, all in this one newsroom. You can't afford that anymore. Now, it's, I mean, do you ever think you see a time where, if you ask anybody, who's the anchor of the CBS Evening News? Nobody could tell you. Nobody would know. go to the CBS building as people.

2:01.6

Half of them won't know.

2:02.8

Nobody knows.

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