Former CBS investigative reporter Catherine Herridge has gone public with pics showing just how egregious her bosses’ attempted seizure of her files on Hunter Biden’s crimes and COVID-19’s origins was.
Stack upon stack of documents. Four large boxes of files and notebooks and other records.
All emphasizing her status as the paradigmatic example of Biden-era media censorship.
Herridge, a veteran investigative reporter, joined CBS in 2019; in October 2020, after getting access to Hunter Biden’s laptop, she dug up damning details from it including the massive retainer Hunter was paid by a shady Chinese energy firm.
She went to her bosses with the find; in a sane world, they would have been thrilled and rushed to air before they could be scooped.
Instead, CBS never aired her reporting.
And then the network sent Lesley Stahl out to publicly cast doubt on the 100% real and verified laptop material.
Not content with this effort to help Joe win in 2020, CBS later fired Herridge and seized her records in what was clearly a desperate attempt to make sure no one ever saw the goods she’d gotten (and the network had suppressed) on the Biden Mafia.
Herridge pushed back and won; the incident prompted a congressional hearing on press freedoms and the danger the Biden administration and its media lackeys presented to them.
That she had the courage to fight back is important and should serve as an example to others.
Because it’s clear that CBS has not remotely changed its ways.
Just witness the “60 Minutes” fiasco around Kamala Harris.
The chronically addled then-VP went on the show to do a puffball interview about her presidential campaign; as is her way, she delivered inane, incomprehensible, word-salad answers — which CBS then tried to cover for with painstaking editing, prompting a massive lawsuit from now-President Trump.
There’s some small evidence that lefty media lapdogs have been shamed or scared out of overt political comissarism like that.
But as Trump’s second term unfolds, expect more dirty tricks — larded over with a bit more subterfuge.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
