But a legion of critics faulted Mr. Tisch's performance. "Is that the legacy he wants to leave, that he made a lot of money?" Gerard R. Roche, an executive recruiter who often placed managers at the company, asked at the time. "CBS is a disaster." Media spokesmen were even more scathing. "He took an institution that was important in this country, and he strangled it," said Alex S. Jones, host of "On the Media," a public radio program, in a 1995 interview in The Times.