Lemon LIVE at 5 | Mainstream Media BLOODBATH! - October 29th, 2025
The Don Lemon Show
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Glad that you are here, Lemon Live at 5. We have to talk about something that's going on. We've discussed the media quite a bit in recent months, but this story is, I think, really, really important because now we're seeing where the metal meets the road, so to speak, or what's exactly |
| 0:38.2 | happening to the networks and what the future is like. So make sure you hit the like, |
| 0:42.6 | hit the thumbs up. It affects the algorithm. More people become aware of our conversation. |
| 0:46.0 | That is just the truth. Okay, let's get to it. Okay. So welcome to the show, everybody. For months, |
| 0:51.9 | CBS news staffers have been on edge waiting for a long expected round of layoffs |
| 0:57.1 | as part of a $2 billion in cost cutting, $2 billion in cost cutting that had been promised |
| 1:05.2 | after the parent company Paramount's successful merger with Skydance media. |
| 1:09.5 | Okay, so those cuts began on Wednesday morning and have been described as massive. |
| 1:15.0 | The company declined to provide any specific number to this. |
| 1:18.2 | One CBS news staffer described the cuts as a bloodbath saying that they were wide-reaching |
| 1:23.0 | and affected a number of different departments. |
| 1:26.5 | It's part of the cuts. |
| 1:27.1 | The network has closed its Johannesburg Bureau, |
| 1:29.7 | and is canceling its CBS Morning Plus and CBS Evening News Plus streaming shows. |
| 1:34.6 | The network's Saturday morning program will undergo a format change, |
| 1:38.4 | that's according to a source with knowledge of the changes who was not authorized to comment. |
| 1:42.9 | The network's race and culture unit was |
| 1:45.2 | also gutted. This follows a large layoff, these large layoffs at NBC News earlier this month. |
| 1:52.1 | So let's talk about all of this, all right? I'm joined now by Ben Smith. He is the co-founder and the |
| 1:57.3 | editor-in-chief of Semaphore and former media columnist for the New York Times. |
| 2:02.0 | Also, mixed signals podcast, which I have appeared on and it's quite good. |
| 2:07.8 | Okay, Ben, tell us what's going on here. |
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