"Bloodbath" at Paramount Globan/CBS, As 800 Are Fired, Including 20 CBS "Journalists"

Oh no -- Not the journalists! Anyone but them!

Among the fired "journalists" is an actual journalist, Catherine Herridge, who was presumably fired for breaking the wrong kind of story.

Other than her: to hell with them all.

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Several CBS News reporters were caught up in layoffs at Paramount Global that claimed 800 jobs, including one who is embroiled in a high-stakes First Amendment fight -- and another who has reportedly weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, The Post has learned.

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"Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that [Paramount Global CEO] Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he's making these cuts," one insider fumed.

Elsewhere, some suspected the layoffs were more than just cost-cutting. Sources said Herridge had clashed with CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews -- a sharp-elbowed executive who was investigated in 2021 over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices, as revealed by The Post.

Sources said CBS News' Washington bureau, where Herridge covered national security and intelligence, was hit particularly hard.

Among the other Washington casualties, sources said, was CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues, who had weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, including an alleged incident in which he dressed down a female colleague in a "20-minute rant."

Pegues is black, which is why this background is relevant. But the NY Post can't just say that.

When the incident was investigated in 2021, insiders said, Ciprian-Matthews -- who insiders have accused of promoting minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists -- attempted to "blame" the female correspondent and eventually gave Pegues a promotion.

That's despite prior allegations that Pegues had been "lashing out" and "bullying" younger female reporters who "outworked" him, a former CBS manager told The Post.

"She got rid of her enemies under the guise of budget cuts," one source said of Ciprian-Matthews after Tuesday's layoffs. "She cleared the deck and she had to sacrifice some others like Pegues."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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