CBS has a long and storied history of fake and slanted news. It’s in their DNA. They’ve also got some experience hiding sexual harassment complaints, so why not take the leap into discriminatory racial hiring practices?
“CBS decided that there were too many white males at CBS, and it acted accordingly. It needed to solve its ‘white problem’ by firing successful white males,” the complaint alleged.
CBS declined to comment.
[Long-tim anchor jeff] Vaughn’s lawsuit follows a similar suit in March by a fired white, heterosexual male freelance writer on CBS’ “SEAL Team” series who accused the network of “blatant” discrimination.
There you are, doing everything they ask of you, and perhaps well, and then one day, someone tells you to take a hike because your skin is the wrong color. I think we all know that in the current progressive culture, the skin taking the walk is white. We also know that if it were any other color, it would be racial discrimination. And we also know that it still is. But this is not the limit to CBS’ woes.
The new president of CBS News has been accused of using her clout to promote minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists — a “woke” and “divisive” practice that sparked multiple employee complaints and a major internal probe in 2021, The Post has learned.
Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — a 30-year veteran of the third-place network who took the helm in August after her boss Neeraj Khemlani left in a storm of controversy — also had been top deputy to ex-president David Rhodes, who exited CBS News in January 2019 following a slew of high-profile scandals.
Those included sex-harassment allegations against Charlie Rose and allegations that “60 Minutes” boss Jeff Fager presided over a discriminatory culture. Rhodes’ boss, CBS CEO Les Moonves, was ousted over accusations of sexual misconduct which he denied.
A male diversity hire does a bad job (budget issues, apparently) only to be replaced by a female diversity hire who “earlier this year… had been accused by staffers of promoting minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists, sparking a major internal human relations probe in 2021.”
I mean, I get why they wanted to part ways with Rose, Fager, and Rhodes. It feels like the Male Hollywood studio director culture alleged to have started the #MeToo movement. But you aren’t doing people of color any favors if you are knee-jerk promoting people into a position, especially one of authority because they aren’t white. You undermine the real talent and potential of aspiring minorities when you choose someone to “represent them” who isn’t ready or engages in the same or worse behavior.
The goal should be to find diverse talent and train them to fill future opportunities not to replace good people as if it is a numbers game. Boeing did that, and it hasn’t gone well for them.
They won’t all be good at it, so you either invest more time in them or move along. And if you can’t find minorities who can do the job, and it’s truly that important, consider diversifying your reporting on public education a bit with an emphasis on why urban schools, in particular, spend so much money but can’t manage to teach the next generation of potential CBS employees how to read at grade level or do basic math.
CBS has a lot of problems but that might be the biggest one of all.
