Comments on: CBS fires Catherine Herridge and confiscates her files

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:03:32 +0000

WTI Crude,
Well, let’s say Herridge did keep offline copies. The elephant here is that potentially, CBS goons and probably Biden admin people have copies that tell them who was ratting them out.

Who are the informants? Do they (Biden’s people) now know? What future informant will ever trust a CBS reporter going forward?

Oh, CBS didn’t inspect or copy the documents? So they say. Words are cheap and increasingly meaningless.

I don’t think Showalter here is any sage, but it is an interesting coverage of the obvious hypotheses.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/why_did_cbs_want_to_keep_catherine_herridges_reporting_files.html

I think this is one of the most important stories going around of the last couple weeks. I don’t know if huxley would agree, but in the past he has suggested that similar stories look like Dem desperation to him. I think so.

By: West TX Intermediate Crude

West TX Intermediate Crude — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:34:21 +0000

Hard to believe that Ms Herridge did not have the sense to keep an offline copy of her notes, having seen what happened to Tucker.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:00:03 +0000

According to this, CBS has now returned the notes to Herridge, and they say they didn’t look at them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13117901/CBS-notes-journalist-fired-investigating-Hunter-Biden.html

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:32:38 +0000

Maybe she did, Garret Crawford. She hasn’t said, so far as I know.

By: buddhaha

buddhaha — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:26:17 +0000

You would think that a union would leap to protect her. Fat chance. If she was a victim of D party pressure, the union will do nothing.
Solidarity, you know.

By: Garrett Crawford

Garrett Crawford — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:23:58 +0000

One wonders why she wasn’t storing all her contact info, material and research in her personal cloud. Oh, well, live and learn. trust no one.

By: Richard+Aubrey

Richard+Aubrey — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:49:35 +0000

Presumably, the network could tell if Herridge was Seth Riching her stuff off site.
But…?

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:46:14 +0000

And BTW, Murrow wasn’t unbiased either. The whole “free and fair journalism” myth is just that, a myth.
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He was not unbiased, but he was a reporter. The Kilgallans – James and Dorothy – were also reporters. Reporters want to report.
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That aside, he media prior to about 1960 was more variegated in its biases. Biased reporters retained professional values which inhibited the degree to which they’d act as shills. Even 25 years ago, the Media Research Center could delineate the difference between print reporters and network broadcasting in how the Clinton scandals were covered. The broadcasters did just what the Clinton PR people wanted; the print reporters did not.

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:36:53 +0000

those publications are not interested in solving the problem, they want to make it bigger, like they do all through out Europe,

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:04:01 +0000

The union may have no choice but to go to court to force CBS to protect journalistic values, including a demand for an injunction to force the company to secure these files and bar review until a court has had a chance to consider these questions of confidential and proprietary claims to the files.
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Oh boy! A corrupt union protecting corrupt journalists against a corrupt corporation by going to a corrupt court.

That sure makes me feel good.

And BTW, Murrow wasn’t unbiased either. The whole “free and fair journalism” myth is just that, a myth.