Tony Dokoupil has had a rough start in his high-profile new role at the now Trump-friendly news network.
anchor Tony Dokoupil has sparked a fresh wave of ridicule after a cringeworthy segment in which he started crying on air.The segment soon took an embarrassing turn as Dokoupil wiped away tears while explaining why he loves coming back to Miami so much.
“It makes me emotional, it’s so funny,” Dokoupil said, later asking to “let me get a second here” as he composed himself. “To help people understand why I have such a reaction,” he added, before pausing for dramatic effect. “Florida is where I grew up. My grandmother’s here, my father, my mother, my aunts and uncles, cousins, and it’s where I would have spent all of my childhood, but we left because my father got in trouble with business. We laugh about it now, but he was a drug dealer and he went to jail.” “The reason it’s so emotional for me is because I feel like I was robbed of the full Miami experience,” he added.on X. “You’re the new face of a global newsroom, not a kid whose dad brought him along to work.”was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a guidebook…the media industry is now literally a satirical movie.” Sirota shared a clip from the 1987 film in which a recently hired news anchor is found to have staged himself crying during a segment where he interviewed a rape victim.“If you want to make a magazine show, put this production under the CBS entertainment division and give us back Jericka Duncan or Weijia Jiang calmly presenting us good reporting gathered by your best field reporters.” Tony Dokoupil's shaky start at CBS Evening News is the latest embarrassment that has rocked the now MAGA-friendly network’s newsroom.struggled to read a teleprompter and then failed to figure out which segment he was supposed to be presenting on his first night hosting the broadcast on Monday.
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