Journalists at CBS News were warned to “be careful” when writing about the Israel-Gaza war, including avoiding referring to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

NEW: CBS instructs its journalists: “Do not refer to [Jerusalem] as being in Israel.”https://t.co/WzDGKgP1Lj

— Oliver Wiseman (@ollywiseman) October 9, 2024

Daily Wire Despite Congress recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 1995 when it passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act and former President Donald Trump moving the U.S. embassy to the city in 2018, CBS News Senior Director of Standards Mark Memmott reportedly sent an email to employees, telling them, “Do not refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel,” The Free Press reported on Wednesday.

Did CBS also tell its journalists not to refer to the earth as round? That’s also disputed by plenty of morons.

“Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel’s capital. But its status is disputed,” Memmott’s email added. “Israel regards Jerusalem as its ‘eternal and undivided’ capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.” The Israeli Knesset and the homes of the Israeli prime minister and president are all located in Jerusalem.

CBS News also forced one of its anchors, Tony Dokoupil, to meet with the network’s “Race and Culture Unit” to discuss his tone, phrasing, and body language after he interviewed leftist author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new anti-Israel book, according to the New York Post.

Dokoupil didn’t apologize for his questioning, which pressed Coates on his views of Palestinians as perpetual victims. “For as sure as my ancestors were born into a country where none of them was the equal of any white man, Israel was revealing itself to be a country where no Palestinian is ever the equal of any Jewish person anywhere,” Coates wrote in his book, according to CNN.

“I have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards, the acclaim, took the cover off the book, publishing house goes away, the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an Islamic extremist,” Dokoupil said in the interview, according to CNN.

Dokoupil also pushed Coates to answer why he left out so many facts in the book that are beneficial to Israel. “Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?” Dokoupil asked.

While Dokoupil was forced into a meeting and to apologize to co-workers, CBS did nothing when anchor Gayle King lectured the father of an eight-year-old Israeli girl who was being held hostage by Hamas that he needed to have compassion for Palestinians as well.

When a friggin’ COMEDIAN provides sharper Middle Eastern analysis in a single monologue than @nytimes @AP @washingtonpost @TheAtlantic etc have done over the past two years, you know the media is in the crapper and the chain has been pulled. https://t.co/3aadnCHZmN

— Gary Weiss (@gary_weiss) December 17, 2023