NCS’s podcast-style makeover — full with outsized microphones and informal units — is getting panned by viewers, and even the ratings-challenged information community’s stars like Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper are unimpressed, tipsters confide.
“People are laughing,” a supply says. “It looks cheap. It feels forced. It’s not who they are.”
Another insider provides, “Anderson thinks of himself as a serious journalist. This cosplay podcast vibe? Not exactly his thing.”
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Sources say the motivation isn’t any secret amid falling ratings and a scramble to win again viewers who’ve fled to digital platforms.
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But the supply notes, “Slapping a podcast mic on a news desk doesn’t fix the problem.”
Still, insiders say NCS isn’t backing down. “They’re throwing everything at the wall — even if it turns their biggest names into a joke.”
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