Bari Weiss Picks Tony Dokoupil to Anchor CBS Evening News

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Dec. 10, 2025

CBS News, under Larry Ellison's hand-picked self-described "Zionist fanatic" editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, has reportedly selected former hair model Tony Dokoupil to anchor CBS Evening News.

From The New York Post, "CBS News has picked Tony Dokoupil as 'CBS Evening News' anchor: source":

CBS News has tapped "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil as anchor of "CBS Evening News," according to a source with knowledge.

Dokoupil will leave his perch at "CBS Mornings" where he co-hosts the show with Gayle King and Nate Burleson, and start his new gig in the new year, sources said. CBS is expected to announce the move as soon as Tuesday.

[...] He made headlines at the network in October 2024 for his contentious interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the controversial author's pro-Palestinian framing of Hamas' war with Israel last year.

He ruffled feathers at "CBS Mornings" for the grilling, with then CBS News boss Wendy McMahon and her No. 2 Adrienne Roark, admonishing Dokoupil, who is Jewish, before staffers and saying his interview wasn't up to the network's editorial standards.

Bari Weiss' news site, The Free Press, broke the story, revealing the culture clash and bias inside the network. Weiss, who was named editor in chief of the network in October, sold the Free Press to David Ellison's Paramount Skydance for $150 million.

Dokoupil, who is Czech, converted to Judaism in 2014 after getting engaged to his first wife and publicly wrote about getting an adult male circumcision so as to not remain "spiritually cut off from the Jewish people."

He made headlines last year for going after Ta-Nehisi Coates for criticizing Israel (the media loved Coates when he was criticizing "white supremacy" but as soon as he started criticizing Jewish supremacy they kicked him to the curb):

Bari Weiss just made genocidal Zionist Jewish supremacist Tony Dokoupil, whose sole qualification for the role is the fact that he is an Israel Firster, the lead anchor for CBS. When he was berating and smearing Coates with the most insane hasbara, that was his job interview pic.twitter.com/p4yDUfuciQ
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) December 9, 2025

Bari Weiss had Dokoupil do a softball "interview" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two months ago:

CBS: Only 14% of Americans under 30 say their sympathies lie with Israel, is there a fix for that?

Netanyahu: There's a real battle on the social media, it's a big battle…

CBS: It is! It is!

Netanyahu: It's a battle for truth, because of the lies that are foisted against us… pic.twitter.com/WtiXPERbIb
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) October 17, 2025

"We hear numbers—they come from the Hamas-run health agencies."

ZBS News' Tony Dokoupil asks Netanyahu about the Palestinian death toll as reported by Gaza's "Hamas-run health agencies," then lets him lie his a** off with zero pushback.

Bari Weiss has these anchors on a leash. pic.twitter.com/1lojz8edLk
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) October 17, 2025

Netanyahu tells Bari Weiss' ZBS News that he's making "peace" throughout the Middle East—and the anchor just nods along.

Peace Through Genocide.™

(Note: the Abraham Accords were thoroughly corrupt bribes negotiated by the US with countries that were not at war with Israel.) pic.twitter.com/LgIRT088pa
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) October 15, 2025

His commitment to "the cause" is unwavering.

Bari Weiss, who quit the Sulzbergers' New York Times for not being Zionist enough, is ensuring everyone at CBS News is equally onboard.

A CBS News staffer was going to be laid off but then wrote to Bari Weiss about how much he loves Israel so she spared him.

If someone wrote this as satire for the onion they’d tell the writer it was too on the nose. pic.twitter.com/zyJ26CLszr
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 21, 2025

Of course, CBS News under Sumner and Shari Redstone (né Rothstein) was hardly any different -- they just put a higher value on faking objectivity.

Shari Redstone, who recently sold Paramount and CBS News to Larry Ellison's son, tells Forbes she feels she's in a "war" against anti-Semitism.

As part of this war, she worked to inject pro-Israel messaging into their content throughout the world. pic.twitter.com/MJ5N6zpepn
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) October 6, 2025

With the media polarizing, Weiss and Ellison are evidently just going all in on turning CBS News into the hyper-Zionist network (ZBS News).

If Ellison's takeover of TikTok goes through as planned, and they also take over CNN and Warner Bros, they'll have an astonishingly large media empire to saturate with their propaganda.

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