CBS Had Different 'Editorial Standards' When Lecturing Dad Of 8-Year-Old Israeli Hostage Last Year

Posted • October 9, 2024: CBS News is embroiled in controversy over an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Why? Well, one of their reporters -- journalist Tony Dokoupil -- dared ask Coates some tough questions about Israel and Palestine. Apparently that doesn't meet CBS News' 'editorial standards', or something. People were so offended they called in a 'DEI strategist' for a group therapy session (but that didn't go well). But guess what did meet their editorial standards last year? Gayle King asking the father of an Israeli hostage -- an eight-year-old girl -- about having 'compassion' for Palestinians who are also dying. REWIND: This was almost a year ago. CBS's Gayle King LECTURES the father of a eight-year-old Israeli girl being held hostage by Hamas that "innocent children in Pales --Palestinians…are dying" too just as "innocent Israeli children" and, because of "politics," "no one seems to be able to say enough, stop."

CBS's Gayle King lecturing the father of an Israeli hostage about needing to have compassion for "Palestinians" who "are dying" too. Tell me again how Tony Dokoupil is the one who has to cry and beg for forgiveness for supposed bias? (…)

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