CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil failed to get a Chinese visa - and will be covering Trump’s trip from over 1,000 miles away ⁠18%

By Rachel Dobkin⁠54%

5/13/2026, 10:27:16 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Recency Bias, and Genetic Fallacy, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 14.3% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 604 faulty-reasoning hits from 475 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠18% (18,148 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.90% of the article peer group.

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil has reportedly been unable to obtain a visa to travel to China and will be covering President Donald Trump’s state visit from over 1,000 miles away. 
Dokoupil will instead broadcast the CBS Evening News from Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, this week as Trump is set to take part in high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. 
Semafor reports, citing two unnamed sources, that Dokoupil failed to get a Chinese visa in time for the trip. 
It’s unclear what the exact issue was with the visa. 
This is just the latest misstep for CBS News under the leadership of Bari Weiss, and it comes as Dokoupil’s show is pulling weak ratings compared to his broadcasting counterparts. 
CBS Evening News trailed behind ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC’s Nightly News in the week of April 27 with and average of 3.86 million viewers, AdWeek reported Friday, citing Nielsen Media Research data. 
World News Tonight, hosted by David Muir, came out on top with about 8.3 million viewers, and Nightly News with Tom Llamas brought in an average 6.23 million viewers. 
Muir and Llamas are both broadcasting from Beijing this week, Semafor first reported. 
CBS News announced Dokoupil’s anticipated broadcast from Taipei in a press release, noting that it will be the first time the evening news program has been anchored from Taiwan in its 63-year history. 
“The democratic state is at the center of the high stakes talks as China's geopolitical tensions with Taiwan run high,” the release read. 
“Dokoupil reports on what's at stake and why it matters for Americans.” 
Semafor first reported on CBS News broadcasting its evening program from Taiwan. 
CBS News will still have Senior White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang and Foreign Correspondent Anna Coren reporting from Beijing. 
Weiss, who founded the so-called anti-woke media outlet The Free Press, took over as the network’s editor-in-chief last October, and Dokoupil replaced evening news co-anchors Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson soon after in a heavily criticized overhaul. 
One network staffer told The Independent Dokoupil had turned CBS Evening News into “state TV.” 
President Donald Trump told Dokoupil on the program in January that he “wouldn't have a job right now” if former Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris won the 2024 presidential election. 
Weiss is also shaking up CBS News’ long-running 60 Minutes show, with Dokoupil and other journalists at the network expected to make appearances next season, according to the New York Post. 
Trump arrived in Beijing Wednesday with tech billionaires Elon Musk and Tim Cook. 
The president and Xi are scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting, where they are expected to discuss the Iran war, trade relations and the future of Taiwan. 
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475 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers38%attributed speech293writer words
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Writer's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 100.0% coverageAdWeek • 34 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageCBS News • 33 words • 0.0% coverageCBS News • 23 words • 0.0% coverageCBS News • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageCBS News • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 37 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 30 words • 0.0% coverageNew York Post • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverage
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New York Post

100%flagged-word coverage
31 attributed words17% of attributed speech59% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Politically Left Leaning B-12.6 ptsWriter: 12.6%New York Post: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-11.6 ptsWriter: 11.6%New York Post: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-10.2 ptsWriter: 10.2%New York Post: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-5.1 ptsWriter: 5.1%New York Post: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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