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Boston TV News Anchor Claims She Lost Gig Because She’s White — Blames CBS ‘DEI Agenda’
New York Post ^ | Aug. 18, 2025 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 08/18/2025 7:49:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A TV anchor at a local CBS station in Boston claims she was demoted from her job because she is a white woman — and alleged she fell victim to a “DEI agenda” that was raging out of control across the Tiffany Network, according to a bombshell lawsuit.

Katherine Merrill Dunham, a longtime anchor for CBS affiliate WBZ-TV known on air as Kate Merrill, filed suit against the station’s corporate parents CBS and Paramount Global this month alleging that she was run out of the newsroom to satisfy corporate diversity quotas. The 51-year-old Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, who is married to ex-Rangers goalie Mike Dunham, stunned viewers last year when she quit the station without explanation.

In her Aug. 5 suit filed in Boston federal court, Merrill alleged she was targeted by managers who said the morning show was “too white” and by co-workers who filed “malicious” race-based complaints against her. The lawsuit cites exclusive reporting by The Post of then-CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, who was accused of using her clout to promote minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists during her tenure.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boston; dei; media
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1 posted on 08/18/2025 7:49:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Did she say anything conservative or cancellable-ly Christian ?

Otherwise, no. Employers have a right to hire who they want…Can’t just scream DEI every time.


2 posted on 08/18/2025 7:52:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: nickcarraway

Some of it is a youth thing too.


3 posted on 08/18/2025 7:54:03 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: nickcarraway

She may be barking up the wrong tree—if she was replaced by a hot young twenty something female....


4 posted on 08/18/2025 7:54:40 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: nickcarraway

There are way too many minorities on local programs they show by us against white males and females. Black females 6% of the population and we’re nearly 50% our high school dropout are all over the place. Give me a break.

I’m glad to see people fighting back


5 posted on 08/18/2025 8:00:44 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Boycott everything Mexican. Vacations, food, restaurants. Regardless of ownership. )
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I do not think it is possible today to make a studio produced movie these days with an all white cast.

Such as: The remake of The Magnificent Seven or the new Captain America.


6 posted on 08/18/2025 8:07:46 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I thought I read black women are much more likely to go to college than black males?


7 posted on 08/18/2025 8:07:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I thought I read black women are much more likely to go to college than black males?


8 posted on 08/18/2025 8:07:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What good is it to be a mere T A when what “they” want is a TAMI?

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9 posted on 08/18/2025 8:09:26 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

And don’t get me started on TV commercials. A Freeper of Scandinavian descent said if someone from there visited America, he would think the US was 50% black people, based on the TV ads.


10 posted on 08/18/2025 8:10:59 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: citizen

If the part involves someone of questionable intelligence or of low character, it’s OK to use a white guy.

By the same token, we should be grateful for the Russians. They’re the last group that can play the bad guys.


11 posted on 08/18/2025 8:18:19 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: nickcarraway


8/18/2025: The World Economic Forum (WEF) has elected BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Roche Holding vice-chair Andre Hoffmann to serve as interim co-chairs of its board.

12 posted on 08/18/2025 8:35:59 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: nickcarraway

Couldn’t any sane human being be a “news anchor”. Sitting and reading stuff? What skill is that?


13 posted on 08/18/2025 8:36:09 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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You had your day. I remember when it was a big deal that ABC forced Barbara Walters to join Harry Reasoner for ABC News (pre=World News Tonight). She added nothing to the show. Her voice is famously unclear for a news reader.

Now you have had your day, and it is time for the “next thing”.


14 posted on 08/18/2025 8:42:37 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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I thought I read black women are much more likely to go to college than black males?

These days, white women are much more likely to go to college than white males.
15 posted on 08/18/2025 8:43:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Maybe you don’t realize, women have outnumbered men in college since 1980.


16 posted on 08/18/2025 8:44:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Group% Attend College (18–24)% Graduate College (Bachelor's, Age 25–34)% Earn High School Diploma (Age 25+)
Black Men33%26%88%
Black Women38%38%89%
White Men41%42%93%
White Women45%52%94%

17 posted on 08/18/2025 8:49:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Maybe you don’t realize, women have outnumbered men in college since 1980.

Of course I do. I was responding to the statement that black women had that distinction, and I responded that this is also the case with white women. I attended college in the early 80s, but U of Chicago was still majority male at the time, and the gap has widened much since then, especially in law school and medical school.
18 posted on 08/18/2025 8:52:03 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana; A_Former_Democrat

I thought A_Former_Democrat meant that 50% of black women drop out of high school, but this shows a much lower percentage.


19 posted on 08/18/2025 8:57:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Dr. Sivana; A_Former_Democrat

I thought A_Former_Democrat meant that 50% of black women drop out of high school, but this shows a much lower percentage.


20 posted on 08/18/2025 8:57:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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