How Is CBS Marking October 7? By Admonishing Tony Dokoupil
Tony Dokoupil’s interview of Ta-Nahesi Coates on September 30 has set off a firestorm within CBS. (Screengrab via CBS Mornings/YouTube)
The journalist did his job by asking tough questions of Ta-Nehisi Coates. That’s when the trouble began.
Last week, CBS journalist Tony Dokoupil conducted an interview with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates whose new book, The Message, includes a one-sided polemic against Israel. Coates himself describes his book as an effort to debunk the complexities journalists invoke to obscure Israel’s occupation. He complained in an interview with New York magazine that th…
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