Posted on 02/23/2024 4:52:40 AM PST by Red Badger
As we reported, Catherine Herridge was fired from CBS during a bloodbath of them cutting hundreds of employees.
Her firing got the most attention because of her excellence in reporting and the suggestion that it was more than just a layoff when it came to her being let go, just after she'd been reporting on the Hur Report. That suspicion grew louder when it was learned that CBS had also seized Herridge's files, computers, and records, which included her "privileged sources."
According to George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley:
"The timing of Herridge’s termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington. She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur reporton Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. She continued to pursue these stories despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews."
This concerned many that this could "chill" reporting and sources providing information to reporters. Some like Turley and journalist Brit Hume said they had never heard of anything like this before.
Catherine Herridge has now posted an important update from SAG-Aftra, which covers broadcast journalists as well as actors. They posted a statement ripping CBS' actions and coming to her defense, demanding that CBS return her files and records to her. They indicated there was progress because of outreach from CBS and they hoped to resolve the question soon.
SAG-AFTRA strongly condemns CBS News' decision to seize Catherine Herridge's reporter notes and research from her office, including confidential source information. This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment.
It is completely inappropriate for an employer to lay off a reporter and take the very unusual step of retaining and searching the reporter's files, inclusive of confidential source identification and information. From a First Amendment standpoint, a media corporation with a commitment to journalism calling a reporter’s research and confidential source reporting "proprietary information" is both shocking and absurd.
The retention of a media professional's reporting materials by their former employer is a serious break with traditional practices which supports the immediate return of reporting materials. We urge CBS to return this material to Catherine in support of the most basic of First Amendment principles. We are encouraged by recent outreach by CBS News to SAG-AFTRA on this matter, and we are hopeful that it will be resolved shortly.
Hopefully, she gets her files back, and good for SAG-Aftra for standing up for her.
Unfortunately, the horse may be outside the barn already. If the point was to root through the files to find out information, they have already had that opportunity. And would Herridge get all of it back or would some stuff be missing? Even if she gets it back, every journalist out there has to be concerned now about such actions.
People blasted CBS' actions and offered Herridge their support, praising her work.
Not her sources. Those are her personal property and CBS has absolutely no claim to that information.
And make sure you understand, the *ONLY* purpose of this was to get at that source information, so the Government KGB agents that ordered CBS to do this can plan retaliation against these people who dared convey information regarding how corrupt is Biden and his family.
I definitely understand the desire to protect sources. It is basically the number one priority of any journalist, and even investigators in law and law enforcement, because you will never have any credibility and you wont develop new sources of information if people know you hang them out to dry.
However, I wonder if it isn’t more of a gray area when you are talking about all of their actual work.
All this talk about "work product" is just a diversion. The *THING* the government agents want are those sources. None of that other crap matters to them, but stopping people from informing on or testifying against the Biden crime family is the only thing they want.
The apparent failure is own her.
Yeah, she trusted her employer, not realizing that when the corrupt government leans on them, they will do whatever the corrupt government tells them to do.
Good move if you can’t get your data hopefully no one else can.
Red Badger wrote:
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I worked for a company once that had an intellectual property clause that basically said “ANYTHING YOU INVENT WHILE EMPLOYED, NO MATTER WHAT, IS OURS.”
Even if it had absolutely nothing to do with their business......................
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Same here; I worked in the defense industry all my life.
Every defense company I worked for had that kind of clause, and I remember thinking “if I design a better mousetrap, they want to own THAT, when their products are fighter jets and tanks ??!!??
Needless to say, I was too busy working and going to school to get my degree, to have time to design anything.
That has been obvious for at least 20-25 years.
“I swear our government is exactly like the Mafia now................”
No. It’s much, much worse. More like...
the Communists now.
Such is the situation in most of Corporate America.
Only out? Startups like Elon Musk has been in. They don’t all survive but he is an incredible engineer and inventor.
RE: records the Deep State now has copies of-—and sources will not be sources now
After all those hard fought legal battles to keep sources secret in court cases and to keep the contents of cell phones secret.
And next to that, in the big huge warehouse, the Ark of the Covenant.
Top.
Men.
Are working on it.
I think I indicated that about the worst part being the Biden Administration getting their hands on her sources, especially those who have been critical of the Administration and seeking revenge against them
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech. Ecclesiastes 10:20
Beyond that, i'm pretty sure I got on a list decades ago. :)
We’re both on FR, so we have that going for us.
The HAL 9000 series was my grandpa.
:)
I don’t have any computers or tv screens that have cameras. :)
This is what happens when journalists work for politicians. Media should have been stopped years ago, investigated for blackmail, bribery, espionage, payola.
‘Yellow Journalism’ is now ‘Red, White and Blue’...................
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