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CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates (www.nytimes.com)

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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’s views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The episode began last Monday when Mr. Coates visited “CBS Mornings” on a publicity tour for his book “The Message,” which in one section compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Jim Crow laws of the American South. In describing what he witnessed on a 10-day trip to the region last year, Mr. Coates criticized other journalists for “the elevation of factual complexity over self-evident morality.”

From the start of the interview, Mr. Dokoupil directly challenged this framing, telling Mr. Coates that “the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.” The anchor added, “What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place?”

“There’s nothing that offends me about a Jewish state; I am offended by the idea of states built on ethnocracy, no matter where they are,” Mr. Coates replied. The men parried for several minutes in a tense but civil manner, with Mr. Coates at one point saying: “Either apartheid is right or wrong. It’s really, really simple.”

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I criticized them for expressing a perspective about Israel’s motives that are simply wrong. And this is a common attitude about Israel I hear all the time: “The Holocaust doesn’t give Israelis the right to treat Palestinians this way.” That’s simply not how Israelis think.

I'm no Coates expert, but I haven't heard him express the idea that “The Holocaust doesn’t give Israelis the right to treat Palestinians this way.”. I've heard him say something to the effect of "The Holocaust perhaps explains why Israelis treat others they way they do". Coates take doesn't excuse Israel, but does attempt to humanize their reaction. That isn't the same idea that you're expressing. If anything I would think the pro-Israeli camp would appreciate that perspective.

Wrong. He witnessed things that he *interpreted *as apartheid based on his own frame of reference and preconceived notions about Israel.

Are you suggesting that Israel doesn't treat those of the Islamic faith differently that those of Jewish faith as the prime criteria for that different treatment? The "why" is irrelevant. That's Coates's point. Any excuse to treat people of a different faith worse is apartheid with extra steps (and rationalization).

I totally disagree that Dokoupil came across as “unhinged.” No doubt he was trying very hard to suppress his emotions about the book, but he did not get angry or aggressive or anything.

If he wasn't capable of being objective and controlling their emotions with a specific interviewee, he should have bowed out and let others do the interview. Are you sure you watched the interview? Dokoupil's very first question (nearly a monologue in itself) included such treats as:

"the contents of your book would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist"

...and...

"You did not talk about [other specific violence against Israel]. is it because you believe that Israel, in any condition, has a right to exist?"

That last one is a clear strawman.

Those are not comments you say to someone you're interested in hearing answers out of. Those are questions you ask when you don't care what the person is going to say because you're using the questions as a way to advocate you position.

That last Dokoupil comment would be right at home on Fox news.

Bret Baier asked Kamala Harris a question using this same method:

"Half of American's don't support you. Is that because you believe they're stupid?"

CBS should be better than Fox news, and CBS's rebuke of Dokoupil shows that they are.