Shocking allegation against Gayle King as CBS Mornings in crisis mode over contentious Israel interview

CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King is facing caller allegations of journalistic malfeasance amid uproar implicit the network's effect to Tony Dokoupil's tense interrogation with Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The pro-Palestinian activistic was discussing his caller release, The Message, connected Monday when Dokoupil - who converted to Judaism and whose ex-wife and children unrecorded successful Israel - accused Coates of being an 'extremist' and slammed him for not including an Israeli perspective.

Coates has since accused the writer of 'commandeering' the interview, arsenic helium praised King arsenic a 'great writer and a large interviewer' successful a preview for an upcoming interrogation with Trevor Noah, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

But helium past went connected to claim, 'Gayle came down the signifier earlier we went [on] and she had gone done the book, and I'm not saying she agreed with the book.

'[Yet] she was like, "I'm gonna inquire you astir this. I'm gonna inquire you astir that."'

If she did, successful fact, provender Coates circumstantial lines of questioning, King would person violated the network's journalistic standards, a erstwhile CBS newsman told The Free Press. 

'Now are they going to analyse her and accidental that what she did was not successful keeping with CBS standards?' the erstwhile writer asked. 'I fishy not.'

DailyMail.com has reached retired to an cause for King for comment.

But the assertion comes amid turmoil wrong the web implicit the contentious interview, for which Dokoupil was reprimanded after helium accused Coates of undermining Israel's close to beryllium and demanded to cognize wherefore nary pro-Israel voices were included.

'The contented of that conception would not beryllium retired of spot successful the backpack of an extremist,' the writer told his impermanent astatine 1 point.

'Why permission retired that Israel is surrounded by countries that privation to destruct it? Why permission retired that Israel deals with panic groups that privation to destruct it?'

Coates insisted that determination was nary shortage of pro-Israel voices successful the US media, and that helium was trying to archer 'those stories that I person not heard'.

Still, Dokoupil doubled down, claiming that radical who work The Message volition decorativeness it believing Israel is simply a horrible spot that should not exist.

'What I struggled with passim this book, what is it that truthful peculiarly offends you astir the beingness of a Jewish authorities that is simply a Jewish harmless place, and not immoderate of the different states retired there,' helium asked.

'If Israel has a close to exist, and if your reply is no, past I conjecture the question becomes wherefore bash the Palestinians person a close to exist?

'Why bash 20 antithetic Muslim countries person a close to exist?'

Coates fired back: 'There's thing that offends maine astir a Jewish state. I americium offended by the thought of states built connected ethnocracy, nary substance wherever they are.

'I would not privation a authorities wherever immoderate radical of radical laic down their citizenship rights based connected ethnicity. Either apartheid is close oregon it's wrong. It's really, truly simple.

'I americium against a authorities that discriminates against radical connected the basal of ethnicity.'

Throughout the six-minute exchange, King and co-host Nate Burleson sat successful shocked silence.

In the aftermath, bosses astatine the web slammed the CBS mornings presenter for bringing his 'bias' to the screen.

CBS News' CEO Wendy McMahon reportedly claimed helium 'did not conscionable editorial standards for impartiality.'

President of contented development, Adrienne Roark besides gathered unit unneurotic to haul Dokoupil implicit the coals.

'We volition inactive clasp radical accountable,' Roark said. 'But we volition bash truthful objectively, which means checking our biases and opinions astatine the door.'

She said the interrogation did not 'meet our editorial standards', adding 'it has been addressed, and it volition proceed to beryllium successful the future'.

Sources wrong the web present assertion that the contented arose with CBS' Race and Culture Unit, which works 'in performance with the CBS News Standards and Ethics Department to guarantee each stories person the due context, code and intention,' according to the company's website.

It was formed successful the summertime of 2020 amid nationwide protests against constabulary brutality pursuing the decease of George Floyd.

'We indispensable ever beryllium alert of however contention and civilization impacts our journalism - and successful presumption of the aboriginal of CBS News, this portion volition beryllium arsenic important arsenic Standards and Practices,' the quality division’s president, Susan Zirinsky, said astatine the time, according to Deadline. 

'These wide and subjective criteria person made them a precise almighty voice, and galore employees judge this has allowed greater bias to creep into editorial decisions astatine the network,' an insider told The Free Press.

'You spot bias erstwhile it's thing you don't hold with.' 

But immoderate unit were near furious by Dokoupil's treatment, with Jan Crawford, a ineligible expert for the web calling retired web executives.

'I don't adjacent recognize however Tony's interrogation failed to conscionable our editorial standards… I thought our committedness was to truth,' Crawford said astatine a gathering connected Tuesday, erstwhile Dokoupil reportedly admitted 'regret' implicit the interview.

'It sounds similar we are calling retired 1 of our anchors successful a somewhat nationalist mounting connected this telephone for failing to conscionable editorial standards for, I'm not adjacent definite what,' she said. 

'I thought our committedness was to truth. 

'And erstwhile idiosyncratic comes connected our aerial with a one-sided relationship of a precise analyzable situation, arsenic Coates himself acknowledges that helium has, it's my knowing that arsenic journalists we are obligated to situation that worldview truthful that our viewers tin person that entree to the information oregon a fuller account, a much balanced account.

'And, to me, that is what Tony did.'

Shari Redstone, a controlling shareholder of CBS' genitor company, Paramount Global (until its merger with Skydance adjacent year) is besides reportedly perturbed by CBS' actions.

A root adjacent to Redstone told The Free Press, she thought 'Tony gave a large interrogation and modeled what civilian sermon should look like.

'And she disagreed with enactment the institution took. She's moving with the CEO to code this issue.' 

Finally connected Wednesday, Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks sent a memo to unit members saying the institution needs to person 'substantive dialogue' astir perceptions of bias and 'inconsistent treatment.

'There has been beardown and increasing discord wrong CBS News that needed to beryllium addressed successful an editorial meeting,' helium admitted successful the memo, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.  

'This indispensable pb to further substantive dialog astir perceptions of inconsistent treatment, implicit bias and the important standards that our News Division has successful spot to found guardrails for fairness and objectivity.

'To beryllium clear, this has ne'er been astir CBS News close to inquire the pugnacious question[s], that is and ever volition beryllium the standard,' Cheeks continued.

'Our hosts and correspondents volition proceed to inquire the toughest questions connected the astir important and analyzable issues.'

Cheeks went connected to accidental helium is 'incredibly arrogant of CBS News and the mode they conscionable the moment, adjacent successful the astir challenging times.

'All of america determination guardant from this infinitesimal - including maine - committed to reflection, perfecting the process and doubling down successful work of the assemblage erstwhile the request for accurate, unbiased quality presented successful due discourse has ne'er been much important.'