It wasn’t that long ago that we got a splashy celebration of the legacy of former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and his time traveling typewriter. The funny thing that no one is talking about is the fate of CBS News.

Once the gold standard, the home of such great talking head paragons of journalism as Cronkite, Rather and Chung is likely to be collateral damage in the collapse of Paramount.

After spending an untold fortune launching its own streaming service (Paramount+ or something?) stocked with fifty thousand woke spinoffs of Star Trek, one woke Halo series and not a whole lot else to pump up its stock, the company has fired its CEO and is in the middle of a pitched battle over who to sell the company to.

Whether it’s taken by Ellison or Sony, the odds are that CBS will go. And CBS News is by far the most useless and least profitable part of CBS which means that it will go first. Who wants a very expensive news service? Not a whole lot of companies. NBC News at least has the Comcast umbrella and cable providers have some use for news. Sony won’t have any use for CBS News.

Ironically, Dan Rather may outlive CBS News.