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CBS sued for $5M by anchor Jeff Vaughn over diversity policy: ‘Too many white males’
NY Post ^ | 7/03/24 | Alexandra Steigrad

Posted on 07/04/2024 8:16:24 AM PDT by Libloather

An Emmy Award-winning CBS anchor claimed the Tiffany Network’s blind pursuit for diversity hires led to him getting canned because he is an aging, white, heterosexual male, according to blockbuster lawsuit.

Jeff Vaughn, 58, who spent eight years at a CBS-owned Los Angeles affiliate, alleged he was replaced by a younger, minority news anchor in 2022 in the $5 million discrimination lawsuit against CBS and parent company Paramount Global, which was filed in a California federal court Monday.

The complaint pointed to a CBS goal to ensure that half of all writers be nonwhite by 2023 and an initiative requiring half of all castmembers on their reality shows be minorities.

“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.

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.

Earlier this year, a Post investigation revealed that CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews had been accused by staffers of promoting minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists, sparking a major internal human relations probe in 2021.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: cbs; diversity; males; white
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They could air this everyday - live. New reality show.
1 posted on 07/04/2024 8:16:24 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I hope he wins. DIE needs to die.


2 posted on 07/04/2024 8:18:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Libloather

I cheer his case. I was recently turned down for a job because I was too old. The recruiter was open about this, in writing. Wish I could find an attorney hungry enough to pursue it.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 8:19:51 AM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: Libloather

Blacks make up 13% of the population, they should expect no more than 13% of the jobs, that is, if you can get them off the government teat.


4 posted on 07/04/2024 8:20:54 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: Responsibility2nd

I concur. These holes are out of control.


5 posted on 07/04/2024 8:23:37 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: Libloather

Ads have WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many blacks


6 posted on 07/04/2024 8:24:22 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

We have started calling them Afrommercials


7 posted on 07/04/2024 8:26:11 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Ronald77

If blacks truly believed in racial equity, they’d lose 80% of their pro athletes.

Can you imagine the NFL with 87 white guys out of every hundred players?


8 posted on 07/04/2024 8:26:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Ronald77

Its everywhere.

I have heard leadership in my “company” say in a meeting “if there are too many names that sound the same on a list of potential hires, send the whole list back”.

I have of course taken that “leadership advice” to heart and done just that. Heh... next time that fker better just come out and say what he really means.


9 posted on 07/04/2024 8:28:32 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: butlerweave; N. Theknow

If I never hear another fast food commercial with a loud mouthed black guy doing the voice over it’ll be too soon


10 posted on 07/04/2024 8:32:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Reno89519

Joe Biden has made the idea of hiring older people much less desirable. Maybe when he is out of the public eye it will get better, but right now Joe defines the stereotype.


11 posted on 07/04/2024 8:35:21 AM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: Libloather

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas, Mr. Vaughn.


12 posted on 07/04/2024 8:38:13 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Libloather

$5,000,000 isn’t enough. If this were a black woman or a homosexual it’d be $50,000,000.


13 posted on 07/04/2024 8:39:36 AM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: Libloather

CBS diversity policy dictated that by 2025 at least half the cast of Seal Team needed to be penguins.


14 posted on 07/04/2024 8:43:21 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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If I never hear another fast food commercial with a loud mouthed black guy doing the voice over it’ll be too soon

It's not just fast food commercials. It's home repair, tech services, financial companies, real estate, everything.

And if it is a white voice, it's a white woman's voice.

The only white male voices you hear are doofus idiots who are being corrected and belittled by women and minorities.

15 posted on 07/04/2024 8:51:06 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Libloather

People viewing at home have to realize and notice that, what they get in the news and reality shows, is not the best, since they’re getting DEI and affirmative action hosts and actors. Low quality, and it shows. Which is why broadcast TV is not longer king, and people have moved on to NetFlix and Amazon Prime and other streaming services, and most of all, the internet for entertainment.

The DEI and affirmative action hires, have to know that they are not the best, but, they don’t care as long as they get ‘theirs’ and get paid for it. Talent doesn’t count as much as it used to; adequate and low-quality are in.


16 posted on 07/04/2024 8:55:52 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Libloather

At this link you can see an actual picture of DIE from my local news channel. Two ghettopotamuses (ghettopotami?) and a crack head. Three better qualified white males did not get these jobs.

https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/wkrgs-akievia-mcfarland-passes-the-clicker-to-new-traffic-anchor-simone-sharod/


17 posted on 07/04/2024 9:04:31 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: Responsibility2nd

The EEOC long ago enshrined as its policy unspoken as it may be that “white males” cannot claim “discrimination” under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because by definition they have been the “oppressors” in society, and thus not part of the “protected class” which the Act was intended to defend.


18 posted on 07/04/2024 9:10:32 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

And you can’t sue for “ employment discrimination” in a court of law until you have exhausted every “administrative remedy” available to you, which includes by definition filing a grievance with the EEOC. Has this guy done that? EEOC claims can take years to conclude.


19 posted on 07/04/2024 9:15:16 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

EEOC = U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission


20 posted on 07/04/2024 9:17:20 AM PDT by 4Runner
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