CBS Information host Tony Dokoupil has reportedly expressed remorse to colleagues over how he dealt with final week’s interview with an anti-Israel author.
The New York Put up reported Tuesday that CBS Information held an “emotional assembly” with community staffers led by “CBS Mornings” government producer Shawna Thomas following the inner blowback Dokoupil has confronted following his alternate with “The Message” creator Ta-Nehisi Coates.
“Tony stated he regretted placing his colleagues in that place particularly those abroad and at risk,” one CBS insider instructed The Put up, telling the paper that the host did not stroll again the questions he requested.
“There have been tears. [People were] very upset,” the insider added, telling The Put up that staffers had been “divided” on the Israel-Hamas struggle and the way they had been “troubled” by Dokoupil’s line of questioning.
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Writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates was grilled about his views on Israel’s proper to exist by CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil, in an interview final week. (CBS/Screenshot)
One other insider instructed The Put up that Black staffers had been “crucial” of Dokoupil’s co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson, who had “remained tight-lipped in regards to the matter,” in accordance with the report.
CBS Information declined to remark.
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CBS Information’ Tony Dokoupil reportedly expressed remorse over how he dealt with his alternate with Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Michele Crowe/CBS through Getty Photographs))
Whereas a supply accustomed to the matter instructed Fox Information Digital that Dokoupil wasn’t being punished for the interview, CBS Information compelled the Jewish anchor to fulfill with the community’s in-house Race and Tradition Unit following complaints.
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The CBS Information Race and Tradition Unit has “a four-pronged function at CBS Information and Stations as a reviewer, an incubator, a producer and a library,” in accordance with the CBS web site.
The unit sees its main function as a reviewer to “guarantee all tales have the correct context, tone and intention.”
CBS Information staffers have been outraged over Dokoupil’s dealing with of the Coates interview. (Getty Photographs)
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CBS management reassured offended employees members that following a overview, they concluded that the interview didn’t meet the corporate’s “editorial requirements,” the Free Press reported, which obtained audio of the employees assembly.
“We are going to nonetheless ask powerful questions. We are going to nonetheless maintain individuals accountable… however we are going to achieve this objectively, which suggests checking our biases and opinions on the door,” CBS Information news-gathering chief Adrienne Roark stated throughout the assembly.
In 2014, Dokoupil wrote about his conversion to Judaism in a New Republic piece.
Fox Information’ Brian Flood and Yael Halon contributed to this report.
