The Federal Communications Commission is pressing Paramount to take more measures to end the policies of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) before obtaining the approval of its mass media of merger.
The FCC requires that Paramount declares that it will refrain from more DEI policies as a condition to obtain its merger approved by the Federal Agency, the wrapping reported.
“We can only advance in the statute and address a transaction if we want to do so serve to the public interest,” said FCC president Brendan Carr, about the planned merger. “If there are businesses out there that they are still blind forms of discrimination of Dei, I really do not see a path in which the FCC can conclude that the transaction approach will be of public interest.”
With the conversations between Skydance and Paramount slowing down, the PAR approved an extension of 90 days several weeks ago. But the FCC has not yet given its approval to the plans.
Some of the employees more than Paramount More Woke have condemned the entertainment giant for reducing their DEI policies, and a group of them met to sign a letter announcing their disappointment in the company.
“As employees of Paramount Global, we are extremely disappointed, but not surprised, by the decision of the superior leadership team to reverse our commitments to Dei,” said the letter published in March.
“This capitulation reflects the deep hypocrisy in the extraction of labor of several communities, creating content from and for several communities, pointing to the dollars of several communities … while the committee of the elimination and exclusion of them,” the employees continued.
Paramount faces other pressures, in particular, in particular the lawsuit filed by Donald Trump that he deceives his CBS News branch of working to help Harris’s campaign. The complaint highlighted “acts of the elections and illegal of the election and the voters of CBS through a distortion of malicious, misleading and substantial news calculated to confuse, deceive and unpleasant to the public.”
In February, a federal judge denied a motion presented by CBS to dismiss the demand against its 60 -minute program, since the Trump team increased its commitment to demand $ 20 billion in damages, more than $ 10 billion initial.
The consequences have already swept 60 minutes Executive producer Bill Owens outside the playing field when the television executive announced this that resigned from his post.
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