President Donald Trump boasted<\/a> of a \u201cBIG AND IMPORTANT WIN\u201d in their lawsuit against \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\nIn one filing, Skydance promised to end DEI considerations in hiring, promotions, development, and compensation, adding that it \u201cno longer will set numerical goals related to the race, ethnicity sex, or gender of job applicants or employee hires in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
The filing also said Paramount ended \u201caspirational goals related to hiring female employees and employees of color\u201d in February.<\/p>\n
The company also said it would eliminate Paramount\u2019s Office of Global Inclusion and remove all references to DEI on their websites and social media.<\/p>\n
Skydance said that their new management for Paramount would guarantee that news and entertainment embody \u201ca diversity of viewpoints across the political and ideological spectrum, consistent with the varying perspectives of the viewing audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company would also promote an \u201combudsman,\u201d tasked with evaluating complaints of bias in news coverage, who would report directly to the president of Paramount.<\/p>\n
Key Background<\/p>\n
Skydance announced a deal to merge with Paramount Global in 2024, but the deal still requires federal approval. When Paramount agreed to settle a lawsuit Trump brought against CBS\u2019s storied \u201c60 Minutes\u201d newsmagazine program for $16 million, many critics saw the move as a way to broker a truce with the Trump administration. Last week, CBS also canceled \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,\u201d the network\u2019s long-running late night talk show. The network said the decision was based on finances\u2014\u201cThe Late Show\u201d was losing $40 to $50 million a year, according to the network. However, Colbert has also gained a reputation as a frequent critic of Trump, leading many to speculate this may have also impacted the decision to cut the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Skydance Media plans to conduct a comprehensive review of CBS News if its merger with Paramount Global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-16807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}