"Every producer who was laid off on my team is a person of color."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Justin Baragona
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.


October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) 2025-10-29T21:44:46.834Z

[spooky3]

1. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. /s

[arthritisR_US]

22. No!

[KS Toronado]

50. I'm sure Spooky was being sarcastic.

S/he forgot this.........

[rogue emissary]

2. Continued silence from black Republicans/conservatives.

Of course they'll come out of the woodwork during the midterm, general election.

[Omnipresent]

33. Have you ever talked to a black conservative?

They think that people of their race are lazy and make them all look bad.
I heard an ear fill of from one, who couldn’t stop frothing at the mouth about it.

[Redleg]

55. It sure seems like it.

I never understood it but I have seen it when they speak of race issues. Reminds me of the shitty things Bill Cosby used to say about young black men. Fuck that guy.

[cbabe]

3. All whites need to quit. Or be called racists.

[JoseBalow]

7. Sounds like something an "ally" would do

[USS_Dauntless]

15. EVERYONE needs to quit.

Don't work for a DTD. Deranged Trump Devotee.

[Beck23]

4. The new segregation.

[live love laugh]

6. It's beyond segregation this will be remembered as The Great Replacement.

[PatSeg]

36. Yes, I think you're right

I know the pendulum swings to the right periodically, but this is the most extreme I've witnessed.

[calimary]

8. Good one.

This thread has a bunch of ‘em.

[dflprincess]

5. The laid off producers need to contact a lawyer

as there certainly is a pattern.

[FakeNoose]

9. Oh my God! It's time to boycott CBS, if you haven't already

This is completely unacceptable and un-American.

[dem4decades]

14. I stopped watching CBS and 60 Minutes when the producer quit 60 Minutes a few months ago.

There's not much "news" to watch these days.

John Oliver is worth watching, at least till they shut him down too.

[hunter]

28. My wife and I quit all advertising supported television in 2012.

I quit television news and opinion a decade before. ( My wife has never been interested in television news and opinion. )

We don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television.

In general I also boycott nearly all of the products advertised on television -- new cars, questionable pharmaceuticals, overly expensive insurance, sketchy financial products, unhealthy foods, the Republican Party, etc....

What's my power over CBS except to encourage others to boycott them too?

That doesn't seem enough. I want them gone. Extinct.

In my personal universe they are.

[AllaN01Bear]

46. comcast priced me out of the market, so i havent watched tv in years. i live in an apartment and subject to

its lease agrrement and dont have an antenna.

[hunter]

59. As I recall we quit Comcast when they raised their rates from $29 to $39 a month...

... which shows you how long ago it was.

Neither the phone company or Comcast offered residential internet service back then.

And we probably needed the money for food.

Comcast made it very difficult to quit, especially by phone. I ended up driving to their local office and confronting a supervisor directly. After rejecting multiple hard-sell "special offers" I may have threatened to winch the cable connecting our home to their system out of the ground and remove it from our property.

Understanding I was serious, they canceled my outstanding balance from when I'd first tried to quit by phone (document, document, document...) leaving me with a positive balance of thirty some-odd cents. I think they recorded my reason for quitting as "moved" because sure enough a few days later Comcast sales people came to our front door offering special "move-in" deals and I got calls from them for about a year offering to reconnect me in my "new" home even after I told them to stop calling.

My wife and I only watched DVDs for a few years until one of our kids, who was home from college, set us up with Netflix. Since then we've usually subscribed to two or three no-advertising streaming services at any given time, most consistently Netflix, budgeting about $35 a month for television. Most of the money we "save" by not having cable we probably spend on books.

How are you set up for internet? I'm glad I don't have to choose between AT&T and Comcast. I also think internet service ought to be free for low income people because it's becoming nearly essential to have an internet connection to be fully functional in modern society.

[AllaN01Bear]

60. they also got rid of the basic and extended basic packages and completly morphed all the channels .

i got scify and cartoon and then they took them away again.

[MichMan]

56. Curious how you would know to boycott products advertised on TV, if you haven't watched it for a dozen years.

[hunter]

64. Unfortunately, I'm exposed to television elsewhere...

...while visiting older relatives, hotel breakfast rooms, medical clinic waiting rooms, pizza places, the list goes on... It's bad.

My wife and I don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television in our home.

I haven't turned on a motel room television for many years.

I don't have a "smart" phone, so no ads there. On my computers I block all internet advertising that moves or makes noise.

Seriously, I don't see any television advertising in my ordinary daily life.

[Ray Bruns]

29. How can you boycott something you never watch?

[SomedayKindaLove]

44. Boycott their advertisers

[pandr32]

52. Let them know why.

It's an important step.

[MichMan]

62. Wouldn't you have to watch it before you knew who advertised?

[Lonestarblue]

31. Everything Trump and his Republican sycophants have done is Un American.

That’s why MAGA voted for them—to break any law to hurt women, minorities, and LGBTQ+.

[dalton99a]

10. Weiss means White. So Bari Weiss is making CBS white again

[Diraven]

67. Isn't she Jewish?

And a lesbian?

[aggiesal]

11. DEI monitor placed in CBS after Mierda47 sued for Kamala 60 Minutes interview ...

I'm sure the next round will be women of all colors.

Way to bend the knee, CBS.
Don't worry, you'll be kissing his @$$ in no time.

[chouchou]

12. Apparently, CBS has invented and is using a Time Machine. Back to 1861...

[Ilikepurple]

13. Media representation looks bleaker with each merger.

There is so much to be alarmed about. Theres no way decreasing diversity of your news-team improves your product unless your product is propaganda designed to quiet the voices of the marginalized. Even if we take the midterms then get back the White House, its going to be a tough road to get back to even 2024 levels of bias in the media and diverse representation across government and market sectors. Right now I’d be satisfied with making America Ok again.

[Jack Valentino]

16. CBS NEWS had always been my network of choice for news, going back to my childhood and

the days of Walter Cronkite "and that's the way it is!"


NOW it seems they want to replace all their news anchors with 'former Fox News' personalities ???


GOODBYE CBS! May your former news dominance rest in peace...

[FakeNoose]

23. I hear you and I felt the same way about CBS

It's upsetting to see this happening right before my eyes. But it's important to rationally accept that CBS has gone over to the dark side. If I continue to cling to old loyalties, even when all the evidence shows they don't deserve my loyalty anymore, then I'm just as lost as the MAGA-cult.

[PCIntern]

48. What a loss...

Sevareid, Cronkite, Murrow, Douglas Edwards, all those terrific reporters on CBS Evening News, even their Sports people who participated in the News Department like Jack Whitaker and Heywood Hale Broun. My mom knew Whitaker from his early years in Philly. Brilliant guy she said.

Jesus H. What has happened to this country…

[Marie Marie]

17. But we are supposed to believe that this was a mere coincidence.

Could be wrong, but I am guessing that Barri Weiss will not be in her position at CBS for long. Her arrogance is matched only by her inexperience and I think that CBS will be bleeding viewers shortly.

[newdeal2]

18. No she is doing the job she was hired to do

CBS is just a play thing for Ellison.

[Marie Marie]

21. Oh I know that but if the ratings tank because many simply stop watching their news,

eventually some one's head will roll and it seems like networks go through news directors like Trump through McDonald's. They may even replace her with another person with an aim towards conservative bias but someone is always a scapegoat for decisions that may come from higher ups and Ms Weiss may end up being collateral damage. And again, she is completely inexperienced in television.

[CrispyQ]

37. Will black actors be next?

Will they be cast only in historical roles as slaves & servants & as janitors or inner-city thugs in modern settings? Or maybe we'll just go back to blackface.

[littlemissmartypants]

20. It's the shareholders and the advertisers that have the power. ...

Boycotting their advertising partners is the way to have influence. The Power of the Purse is all we have and it's not insignificant. That's why the general strike strategy is invaluable. ❤️

[Prairie_Seagull]

34. OT. I will participate in a general strike although

my own thinking is a GS will have to take a longer view. A one time thing would be a shot across the bow and possibly, possibly be enough. However something like a once a month strike would be more effective. Must hit em where they live, the outcome should be felt by us all. To be successful we would need to get by with less over time. Practical and Punitive.

IMO

[CrispyQ]

38. Let's boycott Christmas. Handmade & food gifts only. Pay someone's heating bill.

Maga whines about a war on Christmas, let's give them a war on Christmas.

[Prairie_Seagull]

39. Sign me up. nt

[CrispyQ]

40. Many years ago, I was slightly crazy I suppose, & I made pies for Christmas presents. 🥧🥧🥧

I made 10 pies. I did it three years in a row. I got more thank-you's for those pies than anything I've ever given! I spent a weekend mixing & rolling out pie crusts & every night I'd bake two pies & the next weekend I'd deliver them. The hardest part was not eating them!

[Prairie_Seagull]

41. We have a competition in our family for who can make

the best crust for pies. For the last few years it has been my youngest daughter.

I am thrilled I get to be the judge.

[Oppaloopa]

42. What are their main sponsors?

[littlemissmartypants]

43. Whoever is buying the bulk of their ads, maybe? Idk any particulars.

[pat_k]

51. To bad I don't have Paramount Global stock to sell -- then again, I would have already sold it.

[johnnyfins]

26. All of dinosaur media is bleeding viewers

And it's their own damn fault. You can only both sides things so much. They're not reporting honest news. Fuck em.

[Wild blueberry]

19. Ugh

[Joinfortmill]

24. This is a crime.

[Pacifist Patriot]

32. If true, and it wouldn't surprise me, I'm detecting a Title VII violation.

[SocialDemocrat61]

25. They probably

laid off a token white person and kept a token black person so they can’t be charged with discrimination.

[maxrandb]

27. It really is pretty "effing" simple. Allow me to cut through the Bullshit.

Nothing will change! The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy UNPROFITABLE to the corporations, businesses and individuals that fund and enable it.

[Irish_Dem]

30. The Great Purge.

[Clouds Passing]

35. CBigotS

[AllaN01Bear]

45. playcating the bully .

[twodogsbarking]

47. Will the american fuckupedness ever end?

[pat_k]

49. Sounds like a hell of a discrimination case!

In the rhetoric for their "anti-DEI" propaganda, they give lip service to the existence of "Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." They flat out lie that they are only targeting their imagined "illegal discrimination" against whites.

I don't see how blanket firing of all non-whites could be defended by this DOJ.

Of course, we would have to have a functional civil-rights division and EOC. Someone should still refer it for action and then sue the DOJ for failing to act.

[Passages]

53. Predictable.

[TheRickles]

54. It would be interesting to know if it was 3 POCs who were terminated, or 30. Same for the white folks.

Obviously this contrast in racial outcomes is not a coincidence, but these numbers would have even more power if the scope of these personnel changes was made clear.

[Easterncedar]

57. Remember when this would have been illegal?

I mean, briefly, like 1970-2024.

[Blue Owl]

58. K&R for visibility

[Patton French]

61. This is ripe for a lawsuit

NT

[Ford_Prefect]

63. Sounds like the opening lines of a class action lawsuit

[Evolve Dammit]

65. Racist SOB's. Explains Sinclair doing all their RW shit on CBS affiliates for last decade?

[Raine]

66. Last hired, first fired .. 🤔 nt