On Thursday evening, Tony Dokoupil once again anchored the “CBS Evening News” alone from Taiwan after failing to secure a visa to broadcast from Beijing, where Donald Trump is meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a high-stakes foreign trip. The logistical blunder has become an embarrassment for the Bari Weiss-led network, leaving CBS as the only major broadcast news network without an anchor on the ground in the Chinese capital.
And yet, the situation—already humiliating enough—managed to get even worse over the last 24 hours, Status has learned. Indeed, eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that when Dokoupil anchored Thursday’s broadcast, he was in a very different location than the night before. While he anchored his program from a Taipei hotel balcony on Wednesday, Dokoupil was stationed in Liberty Square on Thursday.
The change in location was no small matter and the result of a behind-the-scenes drama. According to people familiar with the matter…
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