CBS News anchor Gayle King has ignited outrage by accepting a $300,000 freebie—a spot on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket—despite her network’s strict no-gifts policy.
She’ll join Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry for what’s hyped as the first all-female space flight.
Critics, including Status newsletter owner and ex-CNN analyst Oliver Darcy, call it a blatant conflict of interest, questioning who at CBS approved it. Liberals on Bluesky piled on, slamming King for palling around with Bezos, a Trump-supporting billionaire who recently nixed a Kamala Harris endorsement at his Washington Post and pushed it to lean Trump-friendly.
Reactions range from disappointment—“Gayle, do better”—to vitriol, with some swearing off CBS or wishing death on the crew. Others highlighted the absurdity: free space trips while kids lack school lunches. One NPR commenter raged, “F*ck Katy Perry and Gayle King for enabling this fascist Jeff Bezos.”
The Daily Mail reports the backlash hits as CBS News already grapples with shaky ratings.
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