Posted on 10/30/2025 6:23:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A former CBS News producer is accusing the network of implementing race-based layoffs after its parent company, Paramount, made widespread cuts.
"I just laid off from my job at CBS and every producer on my team who got laid off is a person of color," ex-CBS News staffer Trey Sherman began a TikTok video on Wednesday. "Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated within the company is a White person."
Sherman, who is Black, served as an associate producer for the CBS streaming program "CBS Evening News+" since February, according to his LinkedIn page, and also worked as an associate producer for the CBS Race & Culture Unit, both of which were gutted as part of the layoffs.
Sherman claimed the "executive" who informed him that he was being laid off said he did everything he could to relocate staff but ultimately couldn't.
"It wasn't until I went downstairs thinking that me and all of my colleagues had been laid off that I found out that it was only the people of color," Sherman said. "So I went one by one to my White colleagues. 'Are you getting laid off?' 'No.' 'Are you getting laid off?' 'No.' 'Are you getting laid off?' 'No.' 'Are you getting laid off? No.'"
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That didn’t take long.......................
Perhaps all the people of color were mainly hired for that reason and they actually kinda suck at their jobs.
Or maybe CBS is run by Nazis, I don’t know.
Mainstream Media be racist!
DEI hires just might be DEI fires.
Senor Crybaby, just perhaps the difference between who was laid off and who was not laid off does not have to do with skin color. Had you ever considered, it may be related to how you do your job? Well, think about it, anyway, because that is what just happened here.
“associate producer”
He brought the coffee to the guests in the green room. No worries Sherman, I’m sure you can apply at Starbucks. You are there type.
I’m sure he got that job in first place because of the color of his skin.
gayle king is black and they are in talks to move her elsewhere. i saw one about a discussion for her own show.
Sheesh, get a clue. She already tanked her own show with barkley. is it even still on?.
So, this guy believes only white people should be fired?
Capitalizing the “b” in black mid-sentence is stupid and racist.
It only seems that way since they’ve hired a disproportional number of non-whites.
It’s because of:
homophobia;
xenophobia;
racism;
sexism;
capitalism;
oligarchy;
patriarchy;
conservatism;
botulism;
censorship;
the dog ate my homework;
and most of all TRUMP.
You forgot Islamophobia
Nasty lady, they only got rid of the nasty people.
Merit is a cruel taskmaster.
It used to be that a DEI hire could not be fired, maybe CBS IS doing something right.
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