The Federal Communications Commission is putting pressure on Paramount to take more steps to put an end to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies before it gets approved for a massive merger with SkyDance Media.
The FCC is requesting Paramount to refrain from refraining from further DEI policies as a condition for approval of the merger by federal agencies. wrap It has been reported.
“We can only move forward under the law and we can only approve the transaction if we find that doing so will serve the public interest,” FCC Chairman Brendan Kerr said of the planned merger. “If there are companies there that are still promoting strange forms of DEI discrimination, we haven’t really seen a place where the FCC could come to the conclusion that approving the transaction is in the public interest.”
Speaking while Skydance and Paramount slowed down, the pair approved a 90-day extension a few weeks ago. However, the FCC has not yet nodded to the plan.
Several of Paramount’s awakened employees have denounced the entertainment giant for reducing DEI’s policies and signed a letter where their group gathered to announce their disappointment for the company.
“As employees of Paramount Global, we are extremely disappointed, but not surprising, by the decision of our senior leadership team to roll back our commitment to DEI,” read the letter released in March.
“This surrender reflects the deep hypocrisy in extracting labor from diverse communities, creating content from diverse communities, and targeting dollars in diverse communities.
Paramount especially faces other pressures Litigation To support Harris’ campaign, Donald Trump has filed accusing the CBS news sector of working. The complaint chose “CBS’s partisan and illegal elections and voter interference and voter interference with malicious, deceptive and substantial news distortions calculated to confuse, deceive and mislead the public.”
In February, a federal judge rejected an allegation filed by CBS to dismiss the lawsuit against the 60-minute program as the Trump team raised Ante by demanding damages of $2 billion from the initial $10 billion.
Fallout is already swept 60 minutes Executive producer Bill Owens is off the arena as a television executive announced this month that he had resigned from his position.
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