Skydance Tells Trump They’ll Conduct ‘Comprehensive’ Editorial Bias Review’ at CBS and End DEI Initiatives at Paramount and Bolster News Integrity at CBS

Skydance Media has made a series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount, when its planned acquisition of the companies is complete.

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Skydance Outlines Post-Merger Moves at CBS: ‘Comprehensive’ Editorial Bias Review, Ombudsman To Ensure ‘Accountability,’ and Elimination of All DEI

An attorney for the company made the commitments in two letters to FCC chairman Brendan Carr

By: Collin Anderson, Free Beacon, July 23, 2025

Skydance Media has made a series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount, when its planned acquisition of the companies is complete. Skydance is also confirming the “elimination” of all “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policies and initiatives at Paramount, which had been one of the most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.

Should the Trump administration, as expected, approve the transaction, Skydance now says it will launch a “comprehensive review of CBS” focused on bias, as well as appoint an “ombudsman” to “evaluate complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS,” and eliminate Paramount’s controversial Office of Global Inclusion.

“When it comes to the legacy national news media, change is long overdue,” Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr told the Washington Free Beacon.

Skydance laid out the moves in two letters it sent to Carr on Tuesday. The first letter addresses “concerns about media bias” at CBS and pledges to “ensure that CBS’s reporting is fair, unbiased, and fact-based.” The second outlines Skydance’s “commitments going forward” to “promote non-discrimination and equal employment opportunity.”

CBS News has for more than 40 years been accused of liberal and anti-conservative bias and, more recently, strong anti-Israel bias. In recent years, late-night entertainment programming both at CBS and its sister Paramount network, Comedy Central, has also been called out for a pronounced liberal bias with a particular antipathy toward President Donald Trump.

“Skydance recognizes that, as a broadcast license, it will be charged with operating in the public interest, and the company intends to undertake a comprehensive review of CBS and to make any necessary changes to ensure compliance with that standard,” the first letter states. “In all respects, Skydance will ensure that CBS’s reporting is fair, unbiased, and fact-based.”

“To promote transparency and increased accountability,” it continues, “Skydance also will commit, for a period of at least two years, to have in place an ombudsman who reports to the President of New Paramount, who will receive and evaluate any complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS. New Paramount’s executive leadership will carefully co