Posted on 02/27/2025 5:16:11 AM PST by george76
Fired CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge posted photos of the confidential files seized by the network — which “included sensitive reporting about COVID-19 origins and Hunter Biden.”
The award-winning investigative journalist — who was dismissed last February .. stirred up a firestorm in her bid to regain the materials before the network gave back the items weeks later.
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Herridge referred to CBS News’ actions as a “journalistic rape” and “an attack on investigative journalism.”
“I hope no investigative reporter has to suffer a similar injustice in the future,” she added.
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The incident led to a hearing last April by a House Judiciary subcommittee, titled “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and Their Sources.”
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Herridge testified and discussed being held in contempt of court for refusing to disclose confidential sources related to a national security story.
Her materials were returned after pressure from the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union that represents some 160,000 media professionals and actors.
Herridge praised SAG-AFTRA for standing up “for journalism when CBS News executives seized my reporting files…”
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In October 2020, Herridge uncovered materials from Hunter Biden’s laptop, including a million-dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm and business communications involving Hunter Biden.
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She presented this evidence to CBS News executives, including then-Senior Vice President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and then-“CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell.
Her reporting was never aired.
Herridge expressed her dismay upon seeing “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl state that the laptop’s contents “couldn’t be verified” during an interview with then-President Donald Trump, noting: “As I watched the broadcast, I felt sick.”
It wasn’t until after the November 2022 midterm elections that CBS aired a forensic review of the laptop data, confirming their authenticity.
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Leslie Stahl is an old school media hack who shills for whoever the Dem Admin is at the time.
Catherine should appear as a material witness in the upcoming court trials.
With a lawsuit against CBS for election interference because of editing an interview, they could add Hunter Biden laptop suppression to the same case.
Bkmk
CBS is in deep trouble.
This is almost an open and shut case.
There are not many straight shooters left in the US media.
Hopefully, continued WH beatdowns of the big media establishment will allow more balanced journalism back into media field.
She found out the hard way that everything you do belongs to your employer since you were paid during that time.
WaPo reporters don’t seem to like accountability or editors doing their jobs. Apparently they think the “newspaper” is supposed to lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year to subsidize their personal opinion column. Let them quit and move to podcasts and Substack, just like cancelled/deplatformed conservative writers have been doing for years.
“ It wasn’t until after the November 2022 midterm elections that CBS aired a forensic review of the laptop data, confirming their authenticity.”
Election interference?
Loss of White House press credentials? CBS doesn’t report actual news anyway.
That’s like working for NAMBLA and being shocked that your boss is into child porn.
Catherine Harris was/is a great investigative reporter.
An actual JOURNALIST that was not on TV just because of her appearance and ability to read a teleprompter.
HOWEVER, she chose to leave Fox News and move to CBS because they offered her more money.
Just like Meghan Kelly moved from Fox News to NBC because they threw a bunch of money at her. Now, you can’t really blame these people when someone offers you millions of dollars to work for them. Similar to Free Agents in professional sports or actors. Most of them have a very limited shelf life so they are all looking for someone to “SOW ME THE MONEY”.
All the MSM are in trouble.
First, everyone is dumping cable TV.
No one under the age of 30 pays for cable anymore.
So, their client base is literally dying.
Second, almost everyone gets their news now from the internet in some form. Even broadcast TV is done except for sports.
Podcasts run and owned by the talent(Joe Rogan, PBD, Tucker, Shawn Ryan, etc) all own their production. They do not need to work for any MSM to make millions.
The latest revelations from USAID from DOGE show that many of these MSM have been receiving money directly from the US government to tell the “news” the way the Dems want them to,
Without that money they may very well be out of business.
If not they need to majorly change the way they report the news(Washington Post, MSNBC, etc).
Herridge should never have left Fox for CBS.
Trump needs to up his lawsuit too 500 billion maybe a trillion.
“Apparently they think the ‘newspaper’ is supposed to lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year to subsidize their personal opinion column.”
I found it odd that all these newspapers stayed in business while hemorrhaging readers. From what we’ve learned of USAID I see why none of them went bankrupt.
In the job for 6 months... sort of looks like Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews was an interim brought in to "handle a situation."
You’re right, Fox could have used her reporting during the Biden Administration.
Trump should push his lawsuit to $50 billion
CBS
COMPLETE BS
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