Lamestream Media’s New ‘Unprecedented’ Low

George Rebane

Catherine Herridge, the nationally acclaimed and respected investigative reporter formerly with Fox News, was fired by her current employer CBS News who also seized her confidential files (more here and here).  This move is unprecedented in the journalistic industry for all the obvious reasons.  The dismissal and seizure of materials is pursuant to her current investigation of the Hunter laptop scandal, and it has the Oval Office fingerprints all over it.  Formerly a respected national news organization, CBS has now become another lamestream corporatist hack with plummeting ratings.  But it does know on which side its bread is buttered.  In the interval, The Daily Mail reports (here) that CBS claims it has returned the stuff it seized upon her dismissal and denies firing her because of her current work.

As expected, the other lamestream outlets (e.g. MSNBC) remain silent on the matter.  Even outlets like Fox, for some mysterious reason is silent and forfeits its “…, and still unafraid” tagline.  One thing unreported but certain is that all heads-up journalists will remove their remaining confidential source files from their corporate workplaces.  The CBS action will now have a chilling effect not only on what topics and issues journalists will cover, but also on the willingness of important news sources to come forward with the assurance that their identities will be kept confidential by reporters they formerly trusted.  And all this promises to add another layer of implicit censorship on honest and impartial reporting to an industry already in disrepute.

Comments

[scenes]

I'd say that any journalist working on national issues who doesn't take the same measures as the people who worked with Snowden (Greenwald, etc.) is a fool.

There are enough political prisoners, activist prosecutors and judges, politically motivated hackers, etc. combined with a general arbitrariness to the federal criminal justice system, that people really need to be fairly careful in the modern era.

[Individual Juan]

I get it, now that Republicans are a laughing stock over believing any old FBI informant's rantings because it fit their Hunter Biden narrative, they need another cause célèbre to distract fence sitting MAGAs,

...so they jump on this,

"a CBS News spokesperson appeared to confirm that Herridge had been locked out of her office — which holds her confidential files and records — upon being laid off.

"Catherine’s personal belongings were delivered to her home one week ago, and we are prepared to pack up the rest of her files immediately on her behalf — with her representative present as she requested," the spokesperson said. "We are awaiting a response from Catherine and/or her representative to do so.

"We have respected her request to not go through the files, and out of our concern for confidential sources, the office she occupied has remained secure since her departure," the spokesperson claimed."

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Hey, Hunter Biden. I remember him.

https://bidenlaptopmedia.com/

Lotsa good times there.