Bari Weiss and Paramount are definitely shaking things up at CBS. Now we find out that Gayle King is likely leaving CBS Mornings. Add to that, fired staffers, producers, and reporters are throwing tantrums.

Variety broke the news of Gayle King’s potential departure. 

Gayle King, who has been the face of CBS News‘ morning show for more than a decade, is expected to depart as an anchor of the morning program next year, according to four people with knowledge of the situation. King may shift to a different role at the news division that is being thoroughly overhauled under the new Paramount Skydance regime.

King’s existing contract is set to expire in May. There are signs CBS would like her to stay on board with the news division, potentially with a deal to produce her own programming for the network. Norah O’Donnell, who previously anchored “CBS Evening News,” stepped down from that role in January and transitioned to being a senior correspondent for CBS News, contributing to a range of programs and coverage.

I do find it interesting that there are talks of keeping her on, possibly with a contract renewal next May to produce her own programming. Which is weird because CBS Mornings ratings are in the tank. 

CBS Mornings is a U.S. television program broadcast on CBS since Tuesday, September 7, 2021. CBS Mornings is currently the 24th most popular show on CBS and 70th overall on TV, watched by a total number of 1,810,000 people (0.56% rating) per episode, as of the average weekly audience measurement for the period ending October 26, 2025.

Yeah. Those ratings are…not good. Kind of like Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings. Everyone clutched pearls. He came back, and within two weeks, his ratings went back into the gutter. 

Back to CBS and the month-long tantrums. Gayle King may be able to keep her career going by agreeing to revamp and write her own programming, but why should she? She’s 70 and her salary is at the $10 million mark. Maybe she should just flat out retire? 

There’s a thought. Meanwhile, quite a number of other CBS producers, staffers, and reporters have been given their walking papers. And some are not taking the news well. At. All. 

Cue up former associate producer Trey Sherman. 

A former CBS News producer is accusing the network of race-based layoffs after its parent company, Paramount, made widespread cuts.

“I just got laid off from my job at CBS, and every producer on my team who got laid off is a person of color,” ex-CBS News staffer Trey Sherman began a TikTok video Wednesday. “Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated within the company is a White person.”

Sherman, who is Black, served as an associate producer for the CBS streaming program “CBS Evening News+” since February, according to his LinkedIn page, and also worked as an associate producer for the CBS Race & Culture Unit, both of which were gutted as part of the layoffs.

That last is really important. You see, the Race & Culture Unit is DEI at its worst. In fact, we found out last year how pernicious that unit was. The background is that Ta-Nehisi Coates was interviewed by Tony Dokoupil on CBS Mornings (yes, he cohosts with Gayle King), and the internal CBS scolds at the Race & Culture Unit literally tone-policed the guy. 

And the editors at The Free Press took note and pointed out the double standards at CBS. 

Here was Gayle King on May 26, 2020, after the news broke that George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers. “I am speechless. I am really, really speechless about what we’re seeing on television this morning. It feels to me like open season… and that sometimes it’s not a safe place to be in this country for black men,” she said, holding back tears.

In the case of King—on the subjects of wokeism, racism, Black Lives Matter, and gun rights—her “lived experience” is an asset to the newsroom. As it should be. But for Dokoupil, his experience as the father of Jewish children who live in Israel, has no place in an interview with an author sharing his cartoonish indictment of the world’s only Jewish state.

Well now, many of those involved in tone-policing both staff and news reports are getting shown the door. 

THANKS, BARI!

Wednesday was a “blood bath” at CBS News, whose parent company, Paramount, announced around 2,000 layoffs and eliminated the network’s “Race and Culture” unit amid an effort to crack down on ideological bias.

CBS executive producer Alvin Patrick said in 2023 that… pic.twitter.com/pePzDIbYiP

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 30, 2025

And then there’s also the issue of CBS reporter Debora Patta along with the editors and producers taking liberties with her interview with Ambassador Mike Huckabee. 

The issue is that Huckabee and/or staffers ALSO taped the interview and posted the full unedited interview online. 

Just like 60 Minutes with their editing of Kamala’s train wreck interview, Patta and crew engaged in much the same with Mike Huckabee. 

None of which helps the brand. And Bari Weiss is understandably getting rid of those who are dragging CBS down. 

Ratings matter. Good ratings brings money (advertisements and big names) in the door. And when they don’t ….why keep them on?

Yet those working at CBS thought they were entitled to keep their jobs forever, even as ratings and money flow cratered. Isn’t Karma grand?

Feature Photo Credit: 1950 CBS ad Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and modified