Catherine Herridge, who had spent nearly five years at the network after being hired away from Fox News, was among 20 CBS News staffers let go as part of a larger purge of 800 employees by Paramount.
“When my records were seized I felt it was a journalistic rape,” Herridge testified at the hearing, titled “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources.”
While some sources called the seizure “unprecedented” at CBS News, the network insisted in a written response to the committee that the episode was not unusual.
CBS said no one had rifled through the files and that they were eventually locked inside Herridge’s former office in Washington, DC, before being returned after outcry from her union, SAG-AFTRA.
The Post reached out to CBS News for comment.
Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Herridge if she wrote critical stories about Hunter Biden, the laptop, the Biden family, the business operation and the Biden brand.
Herridge replied: ” I reported out the facts of the story. I called balls and strikes.”
“You sure did,” Jordan said. “You reported the facts and then CBS fired you!”
Meanwhile, in Herridge’s closely watched First Amendment case, the journalist has appealed US District Judge Christopher Cooper’s decision to hold her in contempt for withholding the name of her source for an investigative piece she penned when she was working for Fox News seven years ago.
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She did something that isn't supposed to be mentioned for the people knowing and make it look bad towards other countries that can grow their ego and plan anything for hearing of a corruption.
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It runs deeper and deeper into the cesspool. Herridge was stopped by her employer who was ‘advised’ by our government.
Not only was she fired but it seems attempted censorship further proving who controls Legacy Media.
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Then the court tried to fine her out of existence for being a real journalist and not revealing her sources.
We are truly a dictatorship
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