A mainstay of CBS’s MAGA-friendly makeover has conceded that his failure to cover President Donald Trump’s trip to China from within China last month was a “mistake.”
Tony Dokoupil, the 45-year-old conservative-leaning anchor, took over the network’s flagship evening broadcast in January—part of a wider overhaul at CBS News under its MAGA-curious editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
He had been due to anchor the U.S.-China summit in Beijing alongside rivals from ABC and NBC in May, but CBS could not secure him a visa, triggering a last-ditch pivot to Taiwan.
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