Although 44% of respondents expressed at least some level of positivity toward AI voices, that support didn't fully translate into favorable views of stations using the technology.
"The Commission has trained its attention on daytime and late-night television — programs perceived as unfriendly to the current administration — while leaving untouched the vast landscape of talk radio, where candidates routinely appear without their opponents."
"What is at stake is not just the future of the most important and enduring television journalism program in this country, but the future of free and independent press in America.”
"The world we are reporting on, and the world we are reporting to, where people consume their news, has moved. And if we don't move with it, in the ways that matter, we won't be here for the next sixty years."
The best thing Alfonsi can do from here is land somewhere that values what she does. She's a talented journalist with a track record that speaks for itself. If CBS News didn't want that, somebody else will.
"In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like 'modernization' and 'restructuring' to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition."
"When I lived in North Carolina, I had a plaque on my office wall that said 'I'm not from the South, but I got here as soon as I could.' And I feel the same way about CBS News Radio."
Although 44% of respondents expressed at least some level of positivity toward AI voices, that support didn't fully translate into favorable views of stations using the technology.
"The Commission has trained its attention on daytime and late-night television — programs perceived as unfriendly to the current administration — while leaving untouched the vast landscape of talk radio, where candidates routinely appear without their opponents."