Megyn Kelly declares CBS 'irrelevant', claims 'legacy media is dead'
Nothing will happen at CBS. Nothing. Legacy media is dead and evening news has been totally irrelevant for a long time. CBS has not had evening viewers in any competitive way in more than a decade. It’s not reversible. https://t.co/btMjgqEQCe
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 1, 2026
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Journalist, political commentator, and attorney Megyn Kelly took to X on Thursday, January 1, to slam CBS’s upcoming 'Evening News' anchor Tony Dokoupil as she declared the death of “legacy media.”
She also criticized the news network and called it irrelevant.
Megyn Kelly claims CBS' evening segment is 'totally irrelevant'
In an X post, Megyn Kelly replied to CBS's post and proceeded to call them out for being irrelevant.
The initial post, which featured the network’s latest evening segment’s anchor, Tony Dokoupil, claimed that there would be a change in how news was going to be brought to viewers moving forward, unbiased.
However, Kelly disagreed and said that “nothing will happen at CBS.”
She added that legacy media was dead, noting that CBS’s evening segment had been “totally irrelevant for a long time.”
Kelly also stated that CBS did not have evening viewers in “any competitive way” in over 10 years and said that it was unlikely to change.
“It is not reversible,” she added.
Tony Dokoupil announces changes in CBS' reporting methods
In an X post, Dokoupil said that a lot had changed since the first person had sat in his position, including the lack of trust people had developed towards legacy media channels over the years.
He added that people no longer trusted news providers like before and said he understood why that was.
The anchor said that people wanted to talk to him about different things, such as Covid-19 lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop, or Donald Trump’s fitness for office.
Dokoupil admitted that on too many occasions, the press had “missed the story” because they were worried about the perspective of advocates instead of the average American.
“We put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites,” he added.
The upcoming ‘Evening News’ anchor said he knew how the viewers felt because he had felt the same way on multiple occasions.
He added that the media coverage he saw did not reflect the scenarios he encountered in his life and that the “most urgent questions” were not being asked.
Dokoupil vowed to put the viewers first, moving forward, as he promised to prioritize average Americans over “advertisers,” “politicians,” and “corporate interests.”
“And yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS. I report for you,” he added.
