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CBS News big Tony Dokoupil has reportedly expressed regret to colleagues implicit however helium handled past week's interrogation with an anti-Israel writer.
The New York Post reported Tuesday that CBS News held an "emotional meeting" with web staffers led by "CBS Mornings" enforcement shaper Shawna Thomas pursuing the interior blowback Dokoupil has faced pursuing his speech with "The Message" writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.
"Tony said helium regretted putting his colleagues successful that presumption particularly the ones overseas and successful danger," 1 CBS insider told The Post, telling the insubstantial that the big didn't locomotion backmost the questions helium asked.
"There were tears. [People were] precise upset," the insider added, telling The Post that staffers were "divided" connected the Israel-Hamas warfare and however they were "troubled" by Dokoupil's enactment of questioning.
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)
Another insider told The Post that Black staffers were "critical" of Dokoupil's co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson, who had "remained tight-lipped astir the matter," according to the report.
CBS News declined to comment.
CBS News' Tony Dokoupil reportedly expressed regret implicit however helium handled his speech with Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Michele Crowe/CBS via Getty Images))
While a root acquainted with the substance told Fox News Digital that Dokoupil wasn't being punished for the interview, CBS News forced the Jewish anchor to conscionable with the network’s in-house Race and Culture Unit pursuing complaints.
The CBS News Race and Culture Unit has "a four-pronged relation astatine CBS News and Stations arsenic a reviewer, an incubator, a shaper and a library," according to the CBS website.
The portion sees its superior relation arsenic a reviewer to "ensure each stories person the due context, code and intention."
CBS News staffers person been outraged implicit Dokoupil's handling of the Coates interview. (Getty Images)
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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 reported, which obtained audio of the unit meeting.
"We volition inactive inquire pugnacious questions. We volition inactive clasp radical accountable… but we volition bash truthful objectively, which means checking our biases and opinions astatine the door," CBS News news-gathering main Adrienne Roark said during the meeting.
In 2014, Dokoupil wrote astir his conversion to Judaism successful a New Republic piece.
Fox News' Brian Flood and Yael Halon contributed to this report.
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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