A former CBS anchor in Los Angeles sued the network and Paramount Global for $5 million, alleging it dabbled in “anti-white discrimination” by firing and replacing him with a younger person of color.
Jeff Vaughn, a former anchor at KCAL who covered news at 8 p.m., claimed in a lawsuit filed on Monday that he was told in 2022 his contract would not be renewed without a concrete reason. However, he alleged it was because of the company’s efforts to bolster its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
“He was fired because he is an older, white, heterosexual, male,” the suit states.
Vaughn’s lawsuit, which was filed in California, is backed by America First Legal, a conservative group run by ex-Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller dedicated to combating DEI initiatives. It’s the same group that backed former Seal Team SIX script coordinator Brian Beneker in a lawsuit in May, where Beneker claimed he was repeatedly passed over for jobs because he is white.
Vaughn claimed a de facto-DEI mandate came after CBS News President Wendy McMahon was promoted in 2021 with a promise to hire more women and people of color in roles. He claims that, since he was neither of those, he was eventually let go—but not before getting passed over for the company’s 20th-anniversary special commemorating 9/11.
He also claimed the company tried to get him to say on-air that he was leaving voluntarily, which he refused to do. Eventually, he claimed, the company made the remark on the air after his last day, saying he “didn’t want to make a big fuss about leaving.”
”That statement was false,” the suit states. “Mr. Vaughn did not decide to leave.”
Attorneys for Vaughn did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CBS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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He should have sued for much more
Tell them you are transgender. Don’t really feel sorry for him the MSM covers for Biden and all the other Democrats they wanted this DEI garbage
Good luck, he’ll need it in Cal…
As a white person myself , I’ve never felt discriminated. As a Hispanic (yes, we can be both) I also refused one time a promotion because I was Hispanic (which I received later by merit) but earlier in life I was discriminated by my Jewish boss because I was not Jewish…so was life, so I moved on to another bigger corporation where I made more money…the same Jewish boss tried to sue me about a non-compete agreement and failed miserably
DEI from corporations is BS, because basically corporations ONLY do stuff that makes them MONEY$$$.
If management decided they rather have a younger more attractive black or female anchor because they wanted a wider audience and you are older and unpleasant , your white privilege will not help you…so move on
Ah Hitlerite/GermanSmith, you Russian bots are reds…
Not surprised. It is been going on for years, with people citing
events from the civil war and after. Not one person who was involved
in that era is still alive. The Democrats, as so named, were part of
the K.K.K and proud of it in the late 19th century and early 20th
century. White, black, or polk-a-dot, they would discriminate against
you if you were Catholic or Jewish – and the politicians of the time
went along with it.