Big network CNN is being sued for racial discrimination. Two African American employees are suing CNN and Turner Broadcasting, claiming they have been discriminated by the news network.
According to Page Six, this will not come as a surprise to CNN, especially to the boss Jeff Zucker. Sources alleged that the boss has already been encouraged and urged to diversify the network's leadership team. It seems as if the network did not bother to listen, hence an escalation of the issue to the court.
According to Daniel Meachum, a lawyer of the two plaintiffs, the suit was filed Wednesday in Atlanta Federal Court. The lawyer, who already represented Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes in court, told Page Six that since Wednesday and just in a span of less than 24 hours, he received more than 125 pieces of correspondence, through phone calls and emails for past and current CNN employees claiming they have been discriminated against as well.
The lawyer added that the current lawsuit can serve as an underground railroad for more "horror stories" to emerge about CNN and its executives.
In the court documents, Celeslie Henley and Ernest Colbert Jr. claimed that the network has discriminatory policies on compensation, evaluations, and promotions. Henley was a former CNN assistant, who worked for the network in a total of seven years. Colbert on the other hand, was a Turner senior manager who rendered a total of decades of work for the company.
An insider shared to Page Six, "There has been great discord internally [over] the [CNN] leadership and digital leadership team . . . Employees who care about this have urged Zucker to diversify."
CNN and Turner are yet to make a comment with regard all these negative allegations and the lawsuit filed against it.
Meanwhile, the network is also suffering from disses and criticisms left and right over publishing stories with wrong content, as reported by Breitbart. Hashtag #GetitrightCNN went viral, with Twitter users in Ghana slamming the network over a story that was not truthful about actual conditions in the African nation. The story was said to be published in December 9, claiming that Ghanaians were starving.
One Twitter user in the said nation wrote, "I didn't know Ghanaians 'stand in long lines to obtain products' or 'struggle to obtain food'. And I live there.
President-elect Donald Trump too called out the network, as The Guardian reported. The businessman-turned-politiician accused the network of reporting fake news with regard his so-called intention to still have his name be retained as an executive producer on "The Celebrity Apprentice" even as he move to the White House.
