CBS News is trying to get back in the public's good graces.
But they've burned every ounce of credibility.
And Megyn Kelly destroyed CBS News for pulling this embarrassing stunt.
CBS Evening News anchor breaks down sobbing on-camera
CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil choked up talking about his childhood in Miami during a segment on his show.
"It makes me emotional," Dokoupil said while wiping tears from his eyes. "Let me get a second here."
He explained that his father was a drug dealer and the family had to leave Florida because of it.
"The reason it's so emotional for me is because I feel like I was robbed of the full Miami experience," Dokoupil continued as he kept crying.
Megyn Kelly tore into Dokoupil for the embarrassing display during an interview with former ABC News political director Mark Halperin on The Megyn Kelly Show.
"There's no crying at Evening News," Kelly stated.
She pointed out that legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite barely showed emotion when reporting President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
"There might be some crying when a president is shot and assassinated right before your very eyes, like we saw with Walter Cronkite, though he didn't — there was like a wiping of the eyes when he took off the glasses to report that JFK had been shot and killed," Kelly explained. "But that's as far as he went."
Kelly watched the viral clip of Dokoupil sobbing and couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"I thought for sure that story was going to end in '…and they were all killed in a house fire. I was the sole survivor,' in which case I would've excused the multiple tears," Kelly said.
She added that Dokoupil's father having problems didn't warrant the waterworks on the Evening News.
"The sobbing, the repeated voice quivering, the inability to recover, what is that?!" Kelly asked.
Halperin noted that the clip wasn't even live — CBS chose to air it.
"I don't begrudge anyone crying over their family. I cry when I talk about my family sometimes. But I wouldn't put it out," Halperin stated. "My point is, it wasn't live. They chose to put it out."
CBS Evening News is still the same fake news outlet
CBS tapped Dokoupil to anchor the Evening News after hiring left-wing journalist Bari Weiss to consult on the network's coverage.
The network hoped Weiss would help them appear more balanced after years of blatantly biased coverage.
Kelly warned from the start that CBS's rebrand was a joke.
Dokoupil showed his true colors when he tried playing gotcha with Trump border czar Tom Homan during a recent interview.
He pressed Homan on where the "heart" was in Trump's immigration enforcement policies.
Homan shut him down immediately.
Kelly vindicated as CBS News remains a lost cause
CBS burned every ounce of credibility pushing Democrat Party hoaxes for years.
The network dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation and got caught editing Kamala Harris's disastrous 60 Minutes interview to make her look coherent.
Nobody believes them anymore.
Kelly has been hammering CBS News for months about their phony rebrand, warning that hiring consultants and changing anchors wouldn't fix the rot at the network's core.
Dokoupil sobbing on-camera proves Kelly was right all along.
Kelly called Dokoupil's tearful Miami episode what it really is — "bulls**t pandering" by CBS News.
The network has dug itself a hole so deep it may never climb out, and stunts like Dokoupil crying about his childhood aren't winning anyone back.
Walter Cronkite held it together reporting a President's assassination.
Dokoupil can't get through a segment about Miami without falling apart.
That's the difference between real journalism and whatever CBS is trying to pass off as news.
Sources:
- Charlie Nash, "Megyn Kelly Rips Tony Dokoupil for 'Sobbing' About His Family on CBS: 'There's No Crying at Evening News!'," Mediaite, January 8, 2026.
