Apparently, you can ignore the memo.
CBS has indicated that staffers at CBS News will not be disciplined if they don’t respond to a much-scrutinized message sent last week by Bari Weiss , the division’s new editor in chief, according to Writers Guild of America East, the union representing many CBS News employees,
CBS “informed us that you will not be disciplined if you do not respond to the email, indicating that a response is optional. The company further stated that if you choose to respond, it will not be a basis for discipline, discharge, or layoff,” according to a message from the union to its members that was reviewed by Variety . “We intend to hold the company to these responses.”
CBS News declined to make executives available for comment.
CBS News staffers have been grap