NEW YORK − Maury Povich isn't drawing a line in the sand just yet when it comes to the state of media today.
The veteran TV journalist and "king of talk TV" says he's keeping an open mind about the major changes happening at CBS – even if he and his wife, Connie Chung, don't agree.
Though Chung, the legendary news anchor who also cohosted "CBS Evening News," is standing firm in her view that CBS parent company Paramount's merger with Skydance Media and the appointment of Bari Weiss as CBS News' editor-in-chief is wrong for journalism, her husband doesn't see the question as black and white.
"We're in a little discussion about that," Povich says. "She was talking about the CBS situation and how she didn't understand how the new ownership of Paramount could hire somebody like Bari Weiss, who had never been in television, to run their news department, and I just said: 'Well, you don't know. Let's just wait and see.' And she just jumped at me. … I was a little more open to the to the experience."
But, Povich says, "she shot me down pretty quick."
