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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Eli Lake & How "Safety-ism" Is Threatening Journalism

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

News

4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

CBS News has made headlines this week, from reports of CBS leadership reprimanding 'CBS Mornings' anchor Tony Dokoupil for challenging author Ta-Nehisi Coates' views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to the questionable editing of Vice President Kamala Harris' interview on '60 Minutes.' Columnist for The Free Press Eli Lake weighs in on why these instances have become so prevalent in the news cycle, and how they reflect a much deeper problem growing in journalism: the move away from objectivity. Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.2

Wow. Welcome to The Untold Story, everybody.

0:44.9

I'm Martha McCallum.

0:46.5

Great to have all of you with us.

0:51.7

And today I'm very glad to be joined by free press columnist Eli Lake.

0:56.5

And we spoke earlier this week, Eli and I, about what's going on at CBS. And I want to bring them right in. So Eli, thanks again for joining me. Great to have you with us.

1:02.3

So great to be here. Thank you so much for having me. So they really are going through kind of a crazy

1:07.1

period at CBS where they're being challenged, I think, understandably on a couple of fronts.

1:13.8

And I want to address the first one first, which was when Tony de Coupel and Taisi Coates, who many

1:21.6

people will remember as the author who kind of, I think, really got the conversation rolling about

1:26.9

systemic racism in the United States.

1:29.7

And now he has a new book out that he said he wanted to approach

1:34.1

from the Palestinian perspective.

1:36.6

And when he went on CBS's morning show

1:39.4

and spoke with Tony DeCouple about it,

1:41.3

who's one of their morning anchors,

1:43.5

it sort of took a turn,

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