
Jeff Vaughn, a former evening news anchor, sued CBS in July 2024.
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Jeff Vaughn says it was a 2022 billboard that convinced him being White and male was becoming a liability.
The then-evening anchor at CBS’s flagship Los Angeles television station remembers seeing an ad for his news program — and realizing it didn’t feature him. It did include all of his co-anchors, none of whom, he says, was a straight White man like him.