CBS rebukes anchor over tense interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards

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CBS News on Monday rebuked one of its star morning anchors, Tony Dokoupil, over an interview that he conducted last week with the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which Mr. Dokoupil challenged Mr. Coates’ views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Top CBS executives, on a newsroom-wide call, described the interview as falling short of the network’s editorial standards. The executives said their critique had been prompted by internal staff concerns, although at least one veteran CBS journalist said later on the call that she was puzzled over what exactly Mr. Dokoupil had done wrong.

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