CBS Owner Shari Redstone Backs Reporter Tony Dokoupil Over His Woke Inquisitors

For all that that matters. And it doesn't matter much. The wokies own the place. It doesn't matter who "legally" owns it.

The chair of Paramount Global, Shari Redstone, is backing CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil after a contentious interview last week with author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

"I frankly think Tony did a great job with that interview," Redstone said on Wednesday. "I was very proud of the work that he did. Yes, as hard as it was for me to go against this company, I think they made a mistake here."

"I just want to be clear that I've been working with the CEOs," the mogul elaborated. "I've been working with the woman who does a lot of our diversity training, and I think we all agree that this was not handled correctly, and we all agree that something needs to be done. I don't have, you know, editorial control. I am not an executive, but I have a voice in our platform, like all of us."

The comments from Redstone come after CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil is said to have discussed the matter with his CBS News colleagues. It is not immediately clear what Dokoupil said.

As I was saying: It doesn't matter what the owners and senior people say.

The young woke semi-literate savages have taken over the newsroom, just as they took over the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN, and they took it over without even a fight from the self-styled "Stunning and Brave Truth-Tellers."

Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is?

'Do not refer to it as being in Israel,' said the network's senior director of standards and practices.

By Oliver Wiseman

October 9, 2024

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."

He continued, in a note sent to thousands of journalists at the network: "Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel's capital. But its status is disputed. The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its 'eternal and undivided' capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem--occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war--as the capital of a future state."

Jerusalem's status is indeed contested. For instance, the United States' embassy in Israel is in Jerusalem, and the Jordanian Islamic Waqf has custody of its holy sites. But acknowledging the competing claims on different parts of the city, or declining to refer to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, are one thing. Denying that it is in Israel at all is quite another.

You know what else is disputed? Whether or not there is a "Palestinian people" at all. Oh, there are people living in Judea who are not Jewish-- but many say they're simply Jordanians, and that the "Palestinian people" idea was manufactured by Yasser Arafat to justify a demand for "a homeland for the Palestinian people" to rebut the Jews' own demands for "a homeland for the Jewish people." There was no real "Palestinian people" before it was created as a propaganda point.

(The people currently living in Gaza and the West Bank are descendants from the people living in the larger country of "Transjordan.")

So: Will CBS "News" also stop referring to "the Palestinian people," as it's also a "contested" point, or not?

Not, right?

posted by Ace at 12:44 PM

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