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‘CBS News’ Says Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tony Dokoupil ‘Did Not Meet Editorial Standards’
CBS News executives said a recent Tony Dokoupil interview with an author on Palestine-Israel ties did not meet standards
On the evening of what should be a landmark moment — a ’60 Minutes’ election special w VP Harris airs Monday night — CBS News suddenly finds itself embroiled in l’Affaire Dokoupil, in which a new senior executive had to explain why the tone taken by one of the news division’s rising stars was inappropriate. Dokoupil last week interviewed author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book “The Message.” The segment raised eyebrows both among viewers and internally, because it progressed into a tense back-and-forth as Dokoupil grilled Coates on whether his writing expressed antipathy toward Israel. Dokoupil took a tough time at the interview’s start, noting that the book “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.”
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