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The big lie of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 10 days in Palestine
Jonathan S. Tobin
October 9, 2024
There are times when terrible books can be useful. In the case of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ truly awful The Message, the author has not only demonstrated exactly how and why America’s chattering classes have not just turned on Israel and are supporting an ideological war against its existence…At virtually every other stop, Coates was treated as a hero, offered only softball questions and never challenged about the bogus nature of his latest work. But one journalist, Tony Dokoupil, a host on CBS Mornings, had the temerity to ask Coates some tough questions about the inaccuracies of his book and its true intent, which is to delegitimize and amplify calls for Israel’s destruction. READ MORE
FREE PRESS How Is CBS Marking October 7? By Admonishing Tony Dokoupil The journalist did his job by asking tough questions of Ta-Nehisi Coates. That’s when the trouble began.
NEW YORK POST ADL defends anchor Tony Dokoupil after CBS News panned tense interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates over Israel A prominent Jewish civil rights group has come to the defense of Tony Dokoupil after the “CBS Mornings” anchor’s bosses found he had an “ax to grind” during his tough interview with controversial author Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Post has learned. Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, contacted CBS News chief Wendy McMahon on Monday just after it was reported that Dokoupil was reprimanded over his interview with Coates last week…
FREE PRESS Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is? In late August, Mark Memmott, the senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, sent an email to all CBS News employees reminding them to “be careful with some terms when we talk or write about the news” from Israel and Gaza. One of the words on Memmott’s list of terms was Jerusalem. Of Jerusalem, Memmott wrote: “Do not refer to it as being in Israel.”
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