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Big headline here in the media world, but bigger implications for anyone who consumes news in this country.

John Dickerson is leaving CBS. He has been co-anchoring

CBS Evening News now since the beginning of the year. But this is a major head to roll and certainly

a concern of what is potentially still to come. Well, a head to roll. We haven't got an

official word that his, whether his head is rolling voluntarily. This is always the case, right?

But here we are, once again, another big name news anchor is out. Look, we've seen a lot of this recently. We're probably going to see a lot more of it,

but this is telling us where the media landscape is, where it's going, and it's not a good sign.

It isn't. And when you have the president of CBS News, who we know very well, Tom Sourowski,

an old boss of ours, in announcing him leaving, in announcing John Dickerson's leaving,

he said this, John epitomizes the very best of journalism. So if that is indeed the case,

and certainly that is what I think almost all of his colleagues and everyone who knows him and his

work would say, why then would he leave at the age of 57

at the height of his career at a job that most people would do anything to have?

And it's a job he's only had for nine months.

I have to remember, he's had a long career there, 16 plus years,

and he's bounced around quite a bit,

but he's essentially been a part of their biggest

shows at CBS. This is besides 60 minutes, arguably, to be the CBO, the chair of Cronkite and Murrow

and Dan Rather, that's a big deal. Yes, I was just going to say Cronkite. I mean, this is the,

this is the coveted seat in broadcast journalism period and certainly

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