Some of Tony Dokoupil’s colleagues are baffled by his MAGA pandering.
for being out of touch with average Americans, despite being the ultimate media insider with a career spanning nearly two decade that has included stints at The Daily Beast, Newsweek, NBC, and now CBS.
He shares a Brooklyn townhouse with his wife, the MS Now anchor Katy Tur.Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and TheAnother staffer said that Dokoupil is seen as “professional and smart, if a little cocky and looking to climb.” That’s “not unusual for a correspondent,” the source added, but since Dokoupil took over as anchor, “people actually feel badly for him.”“I am surprised that he is pretending to be, if not MAGA-aligned, then somehow sympathetic to that worldview,” a former NBC co-worker told CJR. “There was no hint of that whatsoever at NBC.” Another former NBC colleague said they were “baffled” that Dokoupil would become “a mouthpiece for the state.”A CBS spokesperson told the magazine in a statement that the narrative of Dokoupil’s MAGA baiting was “not based in reality.” “It’s a sad reflection of our current media landscape that Tony and his team’s mission—to deliver trusted journalism to our audience day in and day out—is so controversial,” the statement said. Tony Dokoupil’s primetime interview with Donald Trump last month went off the rails when the president began mocking the new anchor’s salary.And yet some former colleagues said they weren’t surprised by Dokoupil’s opportunism. “For him to nod at Bari Weiss’s preferred politics, that doesn’t surprise me,” said Bryan Curtis, an editor at large for The Ringer who worked with Dokoupil at Newsweek. “I don’t remember Tony having politics to begin with.” Tina Brown, who oversaw Dokoupil at The Daily Beast, said he was a “brilliant writer” and “one of our stars.”“I thought it was a huge loss to magazines that he had gone the TV route,” she said. “But also he was probably going to make a lot more money.” Weiss was named editor in chief of CBS last year after the network’s parent company, Paramount, was bought by Trump-friendly billionaire nepo baby David Ellison, who also paid $150 million for Weiss’ Substack
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