Student awarded CBS News scholarship explains why he called out network at event: ‘I had to do it’

Santiago Campos says he felt obligated to criticize the network’s direction, which ‘stains legacy of Mike Wallace’ Standing in front of the most powerful and well-known people in the television news business on Wednesday night, in a glitzy New York City ballroom, 18-year-old high school student Santiago Campos shocked – but also delighted – many in attendance when he called out the network that funded the scholarship he received: CBS News. Campos, a graduating senior at the District of Columb...

By Jeremy Barr in Washington