Former CBS producer accuses network of race-based layoffs in viral TikTok

A former CBS Information producer is accusing the community of racially based mostly firings after father or mother firm Paramount made widespread finances cuts.

“I simply received fired from CBS, and each producer on my group that received fired is an individual of coloration,” ex-CBS Information worker Trey Sherman started. TikTok video Wednesday. “Each one that is allowed to remain inside the firm and is moved is a white individual.”

Sherman, who’s Black, served as an affiliate producer for the CBS streaming program “CBS Night Information+” since February, in accordance with his LinkedIn web page, and in addition labored as an affiliate producer for the CBS Race & Tradition Unit, each of which had been gutted as a part of the layoffs.

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Former CBS Night Information+ producer Trey Sherman accused CBS Information of firing on the idea of race. (Michele Crowe/CBS Information through Getty Photographs)

Sherman claimed that the “director” who instructed him he was being fired stated he was doing every part he might to rehire workers, however was finally unable to take action.

“It wasn’t till I went downstairs, pondering that me and all my coworkers had been fired, that I discovered it was solely folks of coloration,” Sherman stated. “So I went to my white colleagues one after the other. “Are you being fired?” ‘No.’ “Are you being fired?” ‘No.’ “Are you being fired?” ‘No.’ ‘Are you fired? No.’

“So I went again to his workplace and instructed him I believe he lied to my face,” Sherman continued. “And I discovered that it wasn’t his resolution to eradicate the present I labored for, however he received to determine who received to remain. … So I instructed him, ‘You stated you could not allow us to transfer, solely to seek out out you might transfer some folks, they usually all occur to be white. Am I presupposed to imagine that is a coincidence?’ And he stated sure.”

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Paramount applied widespread layoffs, destroying a number of divisions at CBS Information. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

The unnamed director additional instructed Sherman that he had retained staffers he had “beforehand labored with,” accusing him of not making choices based mostly on benefit and calling it “racist.”

“I do not care when you determine to maintain folks with purple coloured hair. You determine to maintain folks you have labored with earlier than — I do not even know if that is true — if the result of that call is racist, the motion is racist. That is damned,” Sherman stated.

Neither Sherman, CBS Information nor Paramount responded to requests for remark.

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Paramount’s new CEO David Ellison is trying to shake up CBS Information with the appointment of Bari Weiss because the community’s new editor-in-chief. (Getty Photographs)

Paramount, now underneath new management with CEO David Ellison following its merger with Skydance Media, minimize “roughly” 1,000 jobs throughout the corporate, in accordance with sources conversant in the state of affairs.

Many CBS staff concerned in weekend and livestream programming had been severely affected. It was anticipated for weeks that Ellison would lay off staff, and it was reported that the personnel choices had been made earlier than Ellison tapped Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS Information earlier this month as a part of Paramount’s $150 million acquisition of its outlet The Free Press.

CBS Night Information co-host John Dickerson additionally introduced this week that he will likely be leaving the community on the finish of this yr.

Fox Information’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.

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