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MSNBC Likens Paris Climate Deal to 'NASA Moonshot Kind of Moment'

December 14th, 2015 6:33 PM
MSNBC's Tony Dokoupil acted more like a left-wing environmentalist than a journalist on Saturday's Weekends With Alex Witt, as he reported on the Paris climate change talks. Dokoupil trumpeted how "it's really like a Mars lander kind of moment — a NASA moonshot moment." The correspondent later touted how "history will be made" if the talks conclude successfully, and added, "I can't wait to see…
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MSNBC Reporter: GOP Views VW Emissions Scandal As a ‘Heroic Act’

September 23rd, 2015 11:54 AM
In the wake of the ongoing controversy surrounding Volkswagen’s diesel car emissions controversy, MSNBC reporter Tony Dokoupil wildly proclaimed that Republican politicians were cheering on the German car maker for deceiving the Environmental Protection Agency. Dokoupil appeared on All In with Chris Hayes Tuesday night and insisted that “[i]f you’re a Republican, if you think the EPA goes too far…
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MSNBC Tries to Blame ‘Locals,’ Not EPA, for River Pollution

August 10th, 2015 4:59 PM
On MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts Monday afternoon, environmental reporter Tony Dokoupil described the Environmental Protection Agency causing three million gallons of toxic waste to spill into a Colorado river as “good intentions leading to a bad outcome.” He explained: “This mine has been leaking sludge for a long time and EPA was on the scene in hopes of cleaning it up.”

Newsweek to American Guys: We Can Learn Some Lessons from Europe on H

September 21st, 2010 1:07 PM
"To survive in a hostile world, guys need to embrace girly jobs and dirty diapers," argued the Newsweek writers Andrew Romano and Tony Dokoupil in the subheadline of their September 20 article "Men's Lib."The writers set out to explain "[w]hy it’s time to reimagine masculinity at work and at home."If American men want to be competitive in a global economy, they argued, they need to suck it up…

Newsweek: Even Obama's Neckties Show He's Man of the People

October 15th, 2008 10:32 AM
Tony Dokoupil, who once asked "is journalism ready for a black president" in the Columbia Journalism Review -- he also excerpted it in a blog entry at Huffington Post -- gave Newsweek readers a look at what the presidential candidates' neckties say about the men who wear them.You may scoff now, but Dokoupil sure finds it a knotty problem (emphases mine):So what does the knot say about today's…