‘CBS Mornings’ host Tony Dokoupil ripped by bosses over tense Israel interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates — sparking staff backlash: reports

CBS brass reportedly called out morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil on Monday for his tough grilling of author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the controversial author’s pro-Palestinian framing of Hamas’ war with Israel — sparking backlash among staffers over the network’s “commitment to truth.”

CBS News boss Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark, the president of content development for the news division, claimed the “CBS Mornings” host brought his own bias to the interview with Coates during a meeting with workers on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, according to multiple reports.

They said the sit-down, conducted last week by Dokoupil and co-anchors Gayle King and Nate Burleson, did not meet editorial standards for impartiality — though they declined to provide any details, Puck News and Bari Weiss’s Free Press reported.