Tony Dokoupil had a rocky first day leading the revamped CBS Evening News, which he kicked off by introducing himself twice within 80 seconds (three times if you count the announcer’s introduction of the new anchor).
Dokoupil, who criticized legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite over the weekend, covered Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s decision not to seek reelection and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s censure of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Monday’s broadcast. But there were some confusing moments during his presentation that were difficult to ignore.
Dokoupil, 45, first segued from one topic to another that he said would be about Walz—only to cut himself off after a photograph of Kelly showed on screen.
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