A character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises explains pithily how he went bankrupt: “Two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.” So, too, with the collapse of integrity at CBS News. The signs have been accumulating for decades. There was Dan Rather’s 2004 use of false documents to try to unseat George W. Bush during his reelection campaign. In 2012, 60 Minutes withheld the release of an interview with Barack Obama about the true source of the Benghazi terrorist attack. And in November 2023,