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.
Biden/Garland fingerprints will be all over this.
SloJoe needs all the help he can muster and it still will not be enough.....he is finished.
Even if she gets them back, which I doubt, the horse has left the barn.
Those files were copied and sent to the FBI, DNC and Whit House practically immediately so the could ‘take care’ of any problems they might have.
I swear our government is exactly like the Mafia now................
Ho-ho. Hee hee. It is to laugh. Those files have disappeared into the black hole that is the US Federal law enforcement agencies.
Yep, anybody whose name is in those file better get a one way ticket to Paraguay and quick............And a Kevlar vest........
Her work product belongs to CBS
SAG-Aftra...
Yeah, they’ll be a big help.
These reports make it sound as though there is only one copy of these important files. If this is true then Herridge isn’t so bright after all.
Shield laws and journalist’s privilege: The basics every reporter should know
CBS is acting for Deep State.
And SAG-Aftra damn well knows this. And will do nothing more than talk.
Her ‘product’ was her on-air reports. Now if her computer belonged to her or CBS (which we don’t know at this point) is a different question.
I suspect it is her own personal computer, else she wouldn’t much care one way or the other.
Her ‘sources’ are hers, not CBS’s......................
The Left knows how to use microaggression on others. Meanwhile, claiming anything they don’t like as microaggression against them...
One thumb drive and this would have been a moot point.................
See BS
Lesson learned. Keep your files on a home computer.
They have to! As private citizens, they'll go to jail - they are a treasonous Crime Family.
These files are now stored on the same warehouse shelf as Hunter’s laptop and Seth Rich’s files. The Epstein black book is next to them....just a guess.
the ones that the Deep State now has copies of…… guess somehow her sources will learn not to be sources….
“Yep, anybody whose name is in those file better get a one way ticket to Paraguay and quick............And a Kevlar vest........”
My first thought as well ... her ‘privileged resources’ are now in full CYA mode, and any other folks who have a ‘privileged relationship’ with other CBS ‘journalists’ will immediately become unavailable.
Well, we all know what the ‘BS’ part of CBS means ...
It’s not like the FBI didn’t already know everything she was working on and anything that might be on her computer. I would also assume she has been wire tapped and surveilled (FISA sec 702, I believe). Check out what the FBI did to Sharyl Attkisson. I bet Tucker Carlson has a whole company of Wray’s goons administering an electronic proctological exam daily.
“CBS News announced that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked by “an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions,” confirming Attkisson’s previous revelation of the hacking.”
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