Posted on 08/27/2025 8:18:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Kate Merrill | Image by katemerrill1/Instagram
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A former long-time Boston television anchor is suing CBS and its parent company, Paramount Global, claiming that she was forced out of her job to make way for the media giant’s DEI quotas.
Katherine Merrill Dunham, better known to viewers as Kate Merrill, claims network executives were worried that WBZ-TV was becoming “too white,” and chose to sideline her after more than two decades as an anchor at the station, according to court documents.
The Emmy Award–winning broadcaster filed her legal complaint against CBS earlier this month, saying she was demoted, humiliated in front of colleagues, and eventually pressured to resign – all under the guise of CBS’s “DEI agenda.”
According to the lawsuit, Merrill’s troubles escalated when a black co-worker, meteorologist Jason Mikell, allegedly made a sexually charged remark about her on-air but faced no consequences.
When Merrill raised concerns, she was hit with accusations of “racial bias” from Mikell and another anchor. Paramount would go on to later discipline her for so-called “microaggressions” and ordered her to undergo “unconscious bias training,” per The New York Post.
The following day, Merrill claimed the company leaders at her news station announced her demotion.
Merrill insists she was the victim of malicious and false allegations. “WBZ-TV exploited such policies and took career-ending action against Ms. Merrill to advance a DEI agenda,” her filing states. She also says minority colleagues were spared discipline for serious misconduct while she was labeled a racist and pushed out.
CBS has had a contentious past connected to racially motivated practices.
The lawsuit goes on to reference a past report alleging that former CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews promoted minority employees while pushing white journalists to the sidelines. Ciprian-Matthews allegedly became the focus of a six-month internal investigation by Paramount Global’s human resources department over claims of biased hiring and workplace practices. She has since stepped down from her role as CBS News President.
Paramount itself quietly scrapped its DEI programs earlier this year after mounting public backlash and regulatory pressure from the Trump administration.
She is seeking damages for lost wages and harm to her reputation, claiming she has been financially and professionally devastated after more than 20 years dedicated to Boston’s breaking news.
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Is anyone really surprised?
“Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!!”
Sounds like they have some of the evidence.
She’s 51. A good looking 51, but in this business, female readers age out.
Looks to me like blacks are over represented https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/wbz-tv/
Jason the akata.
Katherine Merrill Dunham. I’m betting she is a good lib with all of correct beliefs but it wasn’t enough.
wouldn’t you just LOVE to see Kate end up owning CBS?
Jason Mickell, at right.
Jason Mickell, at right.
My little city has statistically zero percent black people. One works at a grocery store and one other works at the variety store.
YET all the news casters, except the weather guy, are black. They tried hiring a black police chief but his family of thugs came with him and perpetrated most of the property crimes. He left after the first winter and took his thug family with him.
CBS is tainted with racism. Perhaps time review their broadcast license.
Gayle and Nate basically rebranded the morning show: "CBS Mornings for Blacks" as most news stories are black related.
Somewhere along the line these white liberals are going to have to start volunteering their careers in order to advance their wish to eliminate whites from high level positions.
The mediot starts crying for the shooter. How about we not load him full of hormones and psycotropic drugs?
The Left is literally creating this mess by encouraging this mental illness - putting tampons in boys rooms....
Made a sexually charged remark about her on-air but faced no consequences.
Some a dat equilty going around huh?.
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