Did they or didn’t they? Only their DOGE hairdressers know for sure. And they may be preparing a haircut the like of which PBS has never had.
The mystery unfolded last night, as The Free Press reported. The CEO for PBS issued an email to staff closing the DEI office at the public broadcaster, ostensibly to comply with Donald Trump’s executive order to end all such activities. But Josh Code smelled a rat:
Just before 5 p.m. on Monday afternoon, PBS CEO Paula Kerger sent a staff-wide email announcing the departure of the company’s two DEI executives: “To ensure that we are complying with the President’s Executive Order we have closed our DEI office, and Cecilia Loving and Gina Leow are leaving PBS. I know you join me in wishing them well in their future endeavors.”
The message announcing the departure of Loving, the senior VP of DEI, and Leow, the director of DEI, continued: “I know that this will raise many questions for people across the organization and look forward to discussing this in more depth at the upcoming All Staff meeting on Wednesday.”
But the timing of the announcement raised several eyebrows in our newsroom.
What made Code suspicious? Earlier in the day, Code explained, he had asked PBS to comment on a claim the FP got from a “high-ranking” PBS exec. Their source had informed them that PBS planned to play a Three Card Monte with their DEI initiatives by reassigning both Loving and Leow to other parts of the organization to carry on their DEI mission covertly, away from prying eyes at the White House.
The exec also told them Kerger could probably count on support from most of the organization at PBS:
“The employee population at PBS loves DEI,” the high-ranking source told The Free Press. “They’re unwilling to change; they’re unwilling to adjust; they’re unwilling to make concessions in order to protect the sustainability of PBS. Instead, they were trying to play chicken and move things around and try different things to circumvent the executive order.” […]
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