Name: CBS Boss PANICS Over Network Plunge With Joe Rogan Replacement For Anderson Cooper
Uploaded: 2026-03-13T21:44:53.000Z
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As CBS's ratings plummet and their stars flee the network, including earlier this week, Barry Weiss, who for some reason is in charge of it, has to figure out how do we reverse that trend and how do we get people to tune in?

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So she's come up with one of the most, at least in my mind, nine nonsensical solutions of the problem, which is we need someone on 60 Minutes and we've just lost Anderson Cooper, who many Americans have a lot of respect for.

So we need another trusted news source, Joe Rogan.

He'll be on 60 Minutes in this live remake of Idiocracy that we're living through.

So, yeah, they're considering replacing Anderson Cooper with Joe Rogan.

And a television inside industry insider says this isn't stunt casting, it's strategy.

Rogan opens a direct pipeline to the massive MAGA audience CBS has struggled to reach for years.

Yet you bring in Rogan and you immediately gain a core connection to over 50% of the country.

50% of the country, notably, does not listen to Joe Rogan.

He speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by legacy media.

That could solve the ratings and credibility problems of CBS overnight.

Now, those are two very different claims there.

If you want to say that you think Joe Rogan on 60 Minutes would bring in new viewers, well, it probably would.

If you want to say that it would result in overall more viewers, you can try to make that case.

But if you want to say that it's going to help their credibility issues, then that's fine.

As long as you don't mean by credibility what normal people mean when they say that.

If you mean that people who think that CBS was fake news a year ago will suddenly like it.

But also, have you considered what effect this would have on every one of the viewers of 60 Minutes now?

Like, what better possible way could you have to drive them away than to replace Anderson Cooper with Joe Rogan, who they almost certainly in massive numbers don't trust?

If you want to say they should give him a news show or whatever, do a version of his podcast on CBS News or something.

I think that's weird, but stuff like that has happened before.

But to put him specifically on 60 Minutes, which does, like, long term deep dives into the most serious news topics, that just doesn't make any sense.

And I will remind you that as they're bringing him in because he's popular.

They're also getting rid of someone who is so popular, they poll better than the Pope, and

that is Stephen Colbert, as you'll see right here.

New poll shows that he has Pope level popularity and much better than, like, Marco Rubio or something like that.

But anyway, Brett, what do you make of this?

I just would love to see those Joe Rogan bits or tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

Today I wanted to ask, what are they hiding from us in the government?

So I asked a government official, what are you hiding from us?

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

I understand there's a generational issue with understanding what 60 Minutes is about, but

60 Minutes is, like, widely has been held up over decades and decades and decades as the best investigative journalism on television.

Them in Frontline, going in, spending time doing investigative journalism.

Now, one of the upshots, if you're a piece of crap, if you're a big shot in.

One of the good things for you, if you're a piece of crap trying to hide stuff, is that just television news.

A budget for an actual investigative report done by people who are actually journalism, are actually journalists.

And there used to be budgets for news departments to go out and lose money, and

then you'd make it back because everybody watched mash.

Literally, they designed news departments for news.

Now there's a lot of manufacturing conceptual wars and stuff that happened in there, and

But at the very least, there were many, many decades of 60 Minutes doing great investigative journalism and holding the powerful to account.

To replace it with, like, to replace Andy Rooney with Joe Rogan is fine.

To replace Anderson Cooper with Joe Rogan is the death of journalism in America.

My final thought on this, because I don't even think that it's not gonna happen.

They would have to pay him so much money.

But also, like, in in depth, respected journalism.

There is nobody who does less fact checking on the stuff he says or accepts from his guests than Joe Rogan.

Like, if you want to give the position to that producer of his that, like, calls him out for just accepting that, you know, they're eating the cats and dogs or they're pooping in a litter box.

You know how Joe Rogan just accepts literally anything his guest says?

Put the producer on in place of Anderson Cooper, but not Joe Rogan, the most gullible man in.