No one ever said the corporate media was smart but a new report may reinforce that they are completely out of touch with the American public.

 

According to The Hill, CBS News is looking to upgrade their evening newscast anchor position and their solution for Norah O'Donnell's replacement was none other than Brian Williams. Yes, that Brian Williams who recently left NBC News.

 

Word is he passed on the gig.

 

During a time when trust in the press is at an all-time low, CBS News was allegedly set to hand over the reins of its "straight" news flagship to a man who was demoted in disgrace at NBC News for presenting fiction as fact.

 

Williams then spent 6 years hosting a show on the partisan MSNBC.

 

How CBS News didn't see this as a bad move shows us that they don't really care about credibility or getting it right anymore.  This is why the evening newscasts are irrelevant.