‘A wreck’: Legendary ex-late night host rips CBS News in blistering rant

David Letterman unleashed a blistering critique of CBS News on Friday, accusing the network where he spent more than two decades on the air of abandoning its integrity and handing control to what he described as “idiots.”

The searing criticism from the 78-year-old former “Late Show” host came during an appearance on the Barbara Gaines Show, a YouTube program hosted by his longtime producers, according to a The Daily Beast report. Letterman told the hosts the “mentality that drove the integrity of CBS News has been trampled on...