CBS News says heated Ta-Nehisi Coates interview did not meet editorial standards after criticism

Funny to hear them mention all defenders of the interviewer and the critics of CBS doing a marginal review saying things like “prevent a one sided telling of the conflict”; bruh your networks exclusively interview IDF official propaganda department on a daily basis.

This was a master class by Ta-Nehisi in communicating your message and not letting a hostile interviewer derail or dilute it. The tone was incredibly confrontational for a morning show interview/book promo with the clear intention of putting Ta-Nehisi on the defensive, not to mention the questions that Tony asked showed his own anti-Palestinian bias and deeply flawed understanding of the occupation.

Two of Tony’s children and his ex-partner live in occupied Palestine so he is far from a impartial interviewer.

I encourage you to listen to Ta-Nehisi’s own recollections of his time in Al-Khalil and on solidarity with Black communities in the United States. [This is a good video](https://x.com/PalFest/status/1841844511552479293) which includes Ta-Nehisi (and Maaza Mengiste and Eve Ewing)and shows the system of apartheid as it operates there.

The way the other two hosts just sat there the whole time saying nothing….pure clownery.