Catherine Herridge. Firing her crosses the line. What CBS has done is unpresidented. Journalists on the left and right should be sitting their pants about now. And their confidential sources? DOJ is getting ready.
It’s one thing when you fire a reporter in the middle of a story. But to seize all the files and records? Confidental sources are most likly going into hiding. And their families are also in danger now.
Herridge, meanwhile, continues to rebuff a court order to turn over her sources on a story she did about a Chinese American scientist under federal investigation. That said, Herridge’s defenestration was suspiciously odd.
She was both very good at her job and one of the few reporters in mainstream media who doesn’t do a woke calculus every time she does a story, which means she offered something that CBS really doesn’t have and is scarce throughout mainstream media: fair and balanced reporting.
Now consider the way she was ousted. Most people when they are told to leave do so by getting a chance to clean out their desks and take their work product with them. Apparently not Herridge.
According to a column written by George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley in The Hill, “The network grabbed Herridge’s notes and files and informed her that it would decide what, if anything, would be turned over to her. The files likely contain confidential material from both her stints at Fox and CBS.”
And information the Biden administration might not want to be made public as Sleepy Joe tries to win a second term.
Most recently, Herridge has been reporting critically on the Biden administration, the president’s weak mental acuity as displayed in a special-counsel report and the Hunter Biden imbroglio.AP
