CBS to Host Struggle Session Headed by Radical DEI Doctor

CBS News will bring in diversity consultant Dr. Donald Grant after employees voiced competing concerns regarding the network’s handling of an interview with a pro-Palestinian activist, according to Puck News’ Dylan Byers.

CBS will deploy Grant, a self-styled “mental health expert, DEI strategist and trauma trainer,” after they declared that an interview between correspondent Tony Dokoupil and author Ta-Nehisi Coates did “not meet editorial standards for impartiality,” Byers reported.

Grant, whose website lists a client base ranging from the University of Buffalo Medical School to the Los Angeles Dodgers, has a checkered social media history, according to users on X.

One post Grant made on Instagram shows prominent black conservatives Candace Owens and Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s faces photoshopped onto a copy of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a classic Harriet Beecher Stowe novel about slavery.

Grant shared a number of other openly partisan, anti-Trump images on his Instagram as well.

CBS is bringing him in to mediate an in-house kerfuffle over the organization’s accusation that their own reporter failed to be impartial, according to Byers.

CBS executives Wendy McMahon & Adrienne Roark issued their decree condemning a Sept. 30 interview with Coates, which Dokupil co-chaired with CBS colleagues Nate Burleson and Gayle King, though they refused to elaborate how or why, the journalist reported.

Jan Crawford, the network’s chief legal correspondent, reportedly criticized the decision, noting that Dokoupil was simply pushing back on Coates, a vocal backer of Palestine who describes Israel as a practitioner of apartheid in his new book.

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During the interview, Dokupil pushed back on Coates’ book, which he described as “an effort to topple the whole building” of Israel.

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