The Fallout at CBS Continues

Tony Dokoupil on air with Gayle King and Nate Burleson. (Photo by Mary Kouw/CBS via Getty Images)
Shari Redstone—controlling shareholder of CBS’s parent company—is unhappy that journalist Tony Dokoupil was scolded for properly interviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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On Monday, we reported that CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil was admonished by senior executives for failing to meet CBS “editorial standards” in an interview with best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book, The Message, which features a one-sided anti-Israel polemic. We also published a recording of part of that October 7 meeting, in w…

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