Fox News: Jewish CBS anchor forced to meet with Race and Culture Unit after grilling pro-Palestinian author: Report

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Jewish CBS anchor forced to meet with Race and Culture Unit after grilling pro-Palestinian author: Report

CBS News reportedly forced anchor Tony Dokoupil to meet with the network's in-house Race and Culture Unit after some employees complained he was too tough on a pro-Palestinian author.......                    ...                        ...CBS News reportedly forced Jewish anchor Tony Dokoupil to meet with the network's in-house Race and Culture Unit after a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login he was too tough on a pro-Palestinian author. ......The saga began last week when Dokoupil interviewed author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book, "The Message," which describes in part his travels "to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives." The CBS News anchor irked liberal colleagues by bluntly stating that it read like something you would find in "the backpack of an extremist," and pressing Coates on whether he believes Israel has the right to exist. ......The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login reported that "a group of CBS News employees approached executives with their concerns about Mr. Dokoupil's handling of the interview," and Dokoupil had to meet with both the CBS News standards and practices team and the Race and Culture Unit. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"The conversation focused on Mr. Dokoupil's tone of voice, phrasing and body language during his interview with Mr. Coates," the Times reported. ......CBS News and Dokoupil did not immediately respond to requests for comment from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......The CBS News Race and Culture Unit has "a four-pronged role at CBS News and Stations as a reviewer, an incubator, a producer and a library," according to the CBS website. ......The unit sees its primary role as a reviewer to "ensure all stories have the proper context, tone and intention." ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......CBS leadership reassured offended staff members that following a review, they concluded that the interview did not meet the company's "editorial standards," the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login which obtained audio of the staff meeting. ......"We will still ask tough questions. We will still hold people accountable... but we will do so objectively, which means checking our biases and opinions at the door," CBS News news-gathering chief Adrienne Roark said during the meeting. ......In 2014, Dokoupil wrote about his conversion to Judaism in a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.......Fox News Digital's Yael Halon contributed to this report. ...

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