CBS News is facing a civil war over presenter Tony Dokoupil’s interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Accusations are coming from within the network that Dokoupil, who pushed back on Coates’s more dramatic claims, was overly aggressive. The interview earlier this week, centred on Coates’s latest book about the Israel-Palestine conflict, has triggered some tortured internal debate about what the role of a journalist is — and if there’s a double standard at work when subjects such as Coates, a darling of the social justice movement, are involved.
