Weiss, as I report in this week’s issue, arrived at CBS News filled with ideas about how to change a place that she saw as hopelessly sclerotic. Ignoring the norms of TV-talent recruitment, she called up anchors at rival networks still under contract and she asked the staff of “60 Minutes,” the country’s most-watched news program, why the country thought its coverage was biased. One person told me that Weiss had said she was pursuing a “de-Baathification of CBS.” She soon got to work overhauling the tone of CBS coverage, most notably through the “Evening News,” where she handpicked the correspondent Tony Dokoupil to take over the anchor desk, and helped edit and write his scripts—all with the stated goal, as Dokoupil explained it in a social-media video, of no longer putting “too much weight in the analysis of academics or élites.” Weiss’s desire to capture viewers who feel disaffected by mainstream media seems focussed on a territory that Fox News seized decades ago. For all of the upheaval that Weiss’s takeover has caused, both inside and outside the network, I was also interested in another question: Is there really anyone left to win over?