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CBS News reportedly ordered its unit not to accidental Israel's superior metropolis of Jerusalem is successful Israel.
The Free Press reported Wednesday that Mark Memmott, CBS News' elder manager of standards and practices, had emailed each employees successful precocious August telling them to "be cautious with immoderate presumption erstwhile we speech oregon constitute astir the news" regarding the ongoing warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas.
Included connected his database of arguable presumption was "Jerusalem."
"Do not notation to it arsenic being successful Israel," Memmott wrote, according to The Free Press.
CBS News reportedly told its employees to not notation to Jerusalem "as being successful Israel." (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
"Yes, the U.S. embassy is determination and the Trump medication recognized it arsenic being Israel’s capital. But its presumption is disputed," Memmott continued. "The presumption of Jerusalem goes to the bosom of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem arsenic its ‘eternal and undivided’ capital, portion the Palestinians assertion East Jerusalem—occupied by Israel successful the 1967 Middle East war—as the superior of a aboriginal state."
CBS News' Jerusalem guidance was panned by critics connected societal media.
"Standards desks are present *instructing* journalists to contradict reality," Free Press contributing exertion Adam Rubenstein reacted.
"Jerusalem is not lone successful Israel, it is the superior of Israel. What connected world is happening astatine CBS?" Fox News contributor Guy Benson asked.
"Then we tin halt referring to CBS employees arsenic journalists," Washington Examiner elder writer David Harsanyi wrote.
CBS News did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
CBS News has been facing turmoil implicit its handling of "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil. (Getty Images)
The revelation comes amid the turmoil wrong CBS News aft it admonished "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil implicit his grilling of anti-Israel writer Ta-Nehisi Coates past week.
CBS enactment reassured offended unit members that, pursuing a review, they concluded that the interrogation did not conscionable the company’s "editorial standards," the Free Press antecedently reported, which obtained audio of the unit meeting.
While a root acquainted with the substance told Fox News Digital that Dokoupil would not beryllium punished implicit the interview, the Jewish anchor was forced to conscionable with the network’s in-house Race and Culture Unit pursuing complaints.
According to The New York Times, the speech "focused connected Mr. Dokoupil’s code of voice, phrasing and assemblage language" during the interview.
Author and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was grilled astir his views connected Israel's close to beryllium by CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil, successful an interrogation past week. (CBS/Screenshot)
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Some person rallied successful his defense, similar CBS News ineligible analogous Jan Crawford, who went to bat for him during a unit league call, and Shari Redstone, seat of CBS News' genitor institution Paramount Global, who called the network's handling of Dokoupil a "mistake." CBS CEO George Cheeks, however, issued a memo, lasting by the quality network's leadership.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn is simply a media newsman for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
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