SCOOP / THREAD @PuckNews: CBS NEWS has been roiling after a CBS Mornings interview in which anchor Tony Dokoupil pressed Ta-Nehisi Coates over his pro-Palestinian framing of Israel-Palestine conflict. The interview was celebrated by many—"tense and substantive," per WaPo—but angered some at CBS who felt Dokoupil brought his own bias (1/5) This morning, on October 7, CBS News leaders Wendy McMahon & Adrienne Roark told staff that the interview did not meet editorial standards for impartiality, though they declined to elaborate on how or why. When they tried to move on, CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford criticized the leaders for their decision, saying the following... (2/5)

#Break: FACEBOOK responds to Biden’s “They’re killing people” remark >> FACEBOOK: “We will not be distracted by accusations which aren’t supported by the facts. The fact is that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet.” ... (1/2)

Fox’s Lachlan Murdoch at Morgan Stanley TMT: “We continue to look at M&A opportunties… we’ll continue to look at businesses that are not exposed to the cable ecosystem.” + "Tubi is profitable today. I think that's a bad thing. We want to re-invest the profits of Tubi... We have huge aspirations for it." - LM

#Scoop: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens says that publisher A.G. Sulzberger “spiked” his column that was supposed to run on Monday morning in which he took issue with NYT’s handling of the Donald J. McNeil case (McNeil was ousted for his use of racial slur).

Thread…. First, context: The McNeil case has created some chaos inside the Times.

See this via @joepompeo: vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/b…

So, what did Stephens take issue with in this unpublished column?….

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