Gayle King under fire: Explosive allegations against training guests spark backlash from fans

Gayle King is currently facing backlash over Ta-Nehisi Coates’ return to his blistering “CBS Mornings” interview.

Coates appeared on the show in September to debate his latest book, “The Message,” with hosts Tony Dokoupil, Nate Burleson and King. During the interview, Dokoupil, who’s Jewish, was criticized for pressing Coates a couple of passage within the book through which he challenged Israel for its treatment of Palestinians because it occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank through the 1967 Six-Day War.

Dokoupil questioned why Coates’ book selected to omit any mention of Israel’s enemies, asking Coates, “Is it because you simply don’t believe that Israel has a right to exist under any circumstances?”

Coates replied: “I wrote a 260-page book. “This is not a treaty about the entire conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Dokoupil’s questioning led to an exchange between him and Coates for a lot of the nearly seven-minute meeting. interview. King could only ask the writer one query, and that was: “What is your message?”

Even though King only asked one query, she was caught within the crossfire and her journalistic credibility was questioned. Coates joined the query “What now? with Trevor Noah” on October 10, through which he revealed that King had informed him of the questions she can be asking him backstage.

This information caused the previous CBS reporter to show himself in to police on Wednesday, October 9. says the Free Press. — which was recently founded by a conservative author Bari Weiss — “If she had shown him the particular course of the interrogation upfront, it might have violated journalistic standards. Will they now investigate her and find that what she did was less than CBS standards? I think not.

Fans reacted to the Daily Mail report by criticizing King, saying: “She’s not a journalist. She’s a friend of Oprah’s who got the gig because of it. Huge Difference” and “Gayle King, Respected Journalist? No way! The entire network needs to be examined.”

A 3rd person asked sarcastically: “Anyone consider Gayle King a ‘journalist’?”

Some imagine the outrage is irrelevant, with one writing: “It’s only prejudice to them if it’s in one direction. Bias the other way is okay.”

Yet one other said King shouldn’t worry in regards to the response because “one phone call from Oprah and she’ll be saved.”

A spokesperson for “CBS Mornings” defended King, saying: “Gayle King is one of the respected journalists in America. She is understood for her thorough preparation and note-taking. He reads books, familiarizes himself with the content that will likely be discussed and prepares intimately for every interview on CBS Mornings.

King initially had no intention of working in television because she graduated from the University of Maryland with a level in psychology. Eventually, she landed a position as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, where she met her best friend, Oprah Winfrey, who was an anchor on the time.

She eventually moved on to the role of weekend anchor after which reporter. King then went to work at WFSB in Hartford, Conn., where she worked for 18 years before taking over more reporting roles, resulting in “CBS Mornings.”

In an interview with Noah, who claimed he was “amazed” by the best way Dokoupil treated Coates on set, the “Between the World and Me” writer said: “What went fallacious on this interview, to begin with, I worry and I do know , that now I get quite a lot of things, so I really need to say it.

Still defending her, Coates added: “Gayle King is a great journalist and a great interviewer. Gayle came backstage before we went (continued) and looked through the book. I’m not saying she agreed with the book. She said, “I’ll ask you about it.” I’ll ask you about it.”

“Those were her handwritten notes,” he further explained before returning to Dokoupil. “Although on one hand he probably did me a favor… by just taking over this interview, I don’t think he did Nate and Gayle any favors and I really feel sorry for them.”

King has not yet responded to the query of her response.