Veteran news anchor Connie Chung blasted CBS News and its new editor in chief Bari Weiss – saying she can’t even watch the network anymore as it undergoes a “crash into crumbles.”

Chung – who made waves at CBS News as the first Asian American and one of the first women to co-anchor a major network’s nightly newscast – took aim at Shari Redstone, who sold parent company Paramount to Skydance Media in an $8.4 billion deal in August.

“CBS is a whole different organization than I had worked for,” Chung told Pablo Torre on an episode of his podcast, “Pablo Torre Finds Out.” “CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners, Shari Redstone partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison’s son.”

“Their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles, and they’ve hired this – I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss,” Chung said, pausing to laugh. 

In an attempt to bring balance to the network, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison hired the pro-Israel, anti-woke Weiss in October. 

The company also shelled out about $150 million to buy The Free Press, her buzzy, contrarian news site.

When Torre asked Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, former host of the tabloid talk show “Maury,” what it’s like to watch CBS News today, she quickly replied: “We don’t.”

“I mean, I can’t. The paradigm has completely changed in news and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn’t hold value anymore,” Chung continued.

“What we end up doing is trying to – we, as consumers – is trying to find the truth. We can’t find good, old-fashioned facts, and it distresses me so terribly.”

Chung lamented a “complete dismantling of that kind of social responsibility, that we are watchdogs. It’s our job to report information that is not fed to us.”

After Chung’s biting words on Weiss, Povich tried to jump in with a half-hearted defense of the new top exec, saying, “We’ll see.”

“It’s not a big ‘what if,’ as if she could possibly restore–” Chung said.

Povich cut in: “She was there the other day when Trump goes on ‘60 Minutes.’ I thought it was a decent interview, it was okay.”

CBS News correspondent Norah O’Donnell interviewed President Trump for an episode of “60 Minutes” at Mar-a-Lago, Fla., on Oct. 31. The interview aired on Nov. 2.

In a portion that was edited out of the telecast and later included when the network shared the entire transcript online, Trump called Ellison’s purchase of the network “the greatest thing that’s happened in a long time.”

He nodded to Weiss without using her name, saying CBS News has a “great, new leader.”

“60 Minutes” also edited out Trump bragging about the network’s $16 million settlement over his lawsuit alleging it deceptively edited an October 2024 interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent in that year’s election.

“And actually ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you,” the Republican commander-in-chief told O’Donnell.

While the comments were not included in the original broadcast, O’Donnell mentioned the suit at the start of the episode and noted that CBS did not apologize as part of the settlement.