CBS News Returns ‘Several Boxes’ of Seized Reporting Materials to Catherine Herridge, Including Files on Confidential Sources Following Media Outcry

by | Feb 26, 2024 | Aggregate

CBS News has returned ‘several boxes’ containing reporting materials to award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge following an intervention by SAG-AFTRA amidst concerns over press freedom and the protection of confidential sources.

The materials were handed back to Herridge at her CBS News office in Washington D.C., with a union representative present to monitor the process. The contents of these boxes, which include files related to confidential sources, are currently under review by Herridge.

The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) issued the following statement.

SAG-AFTRA is pleased to confirm that earlier today a representative of our union monitored the return of several boxes containing Catherine Herridge’s reporting materials from her CBS News office in Washington D.C. Herridge is currently reviewing the materials.

We welcome CBS News’ reversal which came after SAG-AFTRA’s intervention and widespread media coverage that underscored shared concerns about press freedom and the First Amendment.

The resolution of this matter sends a strong message of protection for basic First Amendment principles. We further hope the public focus now turns to SAG-AFTRA’s continued efforts to support a Press Shield law that provides additional federal protections for journalists and their confidential sources.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Catherine Herridge was among the 800 employees Paramount Global laid off in a bid to streamline operations amid financial strain. Her firing has since escalated into a broader controversy.

Herridge’s colleagues are reportedly alarmed by the company’s unprecedented steps to take possession of her work materials, including sensitive information on sources promised confidentiality.

“There is trouble brewing at Black Rock, the headquarters of CBS, after the firing of Catherine Herridge, an acclaimed investigative reporter. Many of us were shocked after Herridge was included in layoffs this month, but those concerns have increased after CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers and records, including information on privileged sources,” Jonathan Turley wrote on The Hill.

The seizure of Herridge’s files, which span her impressive career at both CBS and previously at Fox News, has sent a “chilling signal” through the ranks, suggesting a potential crackdown on journalistic freedom and source protection.

SAG-AFTRA issued the following statement last week:

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Jerry Seinfeld Harassed by Screaming Anti-Israel Protesters Outside Event in New York City (VIDEO)

by | Feb 26, 2024 | Aggregate

Unhinged anti-Israel protesters outside of an event for Jewish people in New York harassed and screamed at Jerry Seinfeld on Monday, accusing him of supporting genocide.

These people are so offensive and stupid, it’s painful. They all seem to think they’re some sort of human rights anti-war activists, but they fail to understand the history of the region and they refuse to acknowledge the horrors of the October 7th attacks in Israel.

And who goes after Jerry Seinfeld like this? He seems like one of the most normal, down to earth people in show business.

FOX News reported:

Jerry Seinfeld screamed at outside NY event on ‘State of the World Jewry Address’: ‘F— you’, ‘scum’

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was met by angry, profane protesters as he was leaving an event in New York City with Free Press founder Bari Weiss.

“Genocide supporter, you support genocide!” protesters yelled at Seinfeld as he left an event on the Upper East Side on Saturday night, per footage shared by FNTV.

“F— you, you support genocide,” another protester yelled as Seinfeld left the venue.

“Nazi scum!” other demonstrators chanted.

“The small crowd of protesters rallied outside the community center that was hosting Weiss, who was giving the 92Y’s annual State of the World Jewry address,” The New York Post reported Monday.

“Protesters were critical of Weiss, a strong supporter of Israel, and tried to connect her to the death of Palestinian professor and poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in Gaza in December in an Israeli airstrike,” the report continued.

See below:

Smiling Jerry Seinfeld, who is Jewish, waved off anti-Israel protesters who accused him of supporting genocide while leaving ‘State of the World Jewry’ event in New York City. https://t.co/aCnFgPS3SF pic.twitter.com/DgKr7tbgth

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 26, 2024

Under the guise of “pro-Palestine activists”: Nazi Jew-haters persist in harassing and vilifying Jews in the streets.

This time, their target was Jerry Seinfeld in NYC. Unfazed and hardly impressed by the antisemitic clowns, Jerry responded like the champ he is:

Standing… pic.twitter.com/zasNMH0W8R

— Adam Albilya – אדם אלביליה (@AdamAlbilya) February 26, 2024

These protesters are not even trying to win people over, they just want to intimidate others.

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Watch: Longtime Sportscaster Goes on Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant, Calls Followers a ‘Toxic Cult’ Live on CNN

by | Feb 26, 2024 | Aggregate

For decades, American sports fans welcomed Bob Costas into their homes with open arms as he offered thoughtful commentary and analysis in regard to sports.

That entire time, the veteran TV personality apparently held a deep personal hatred for so many of us.

On Sunday during an interview on CNN, Costas referred to people who support former President Donald Trump’s bid for the White House — people who need immediate relief from inflation and illegal immigrant crime — as “toxic” and delusional.”

The comments were made as the 71-year-old attacked Trump while speaking to network host Michael Smerconish.

To be fair, Trump is a public figure and is fair game for criticism from anyone who might not like his politics, his personality or his policies.

In sports — which is Costas’ area of expertise — a team’s coach or players are always open to criticism. Unless something truly egregious occurs, the fans are off-limits.

But Costas took a hateful screed against Trump and made it about those who want changes in a country that as of the time of his comments was fundamentally broken. He attacked the fans of Team America.

Smerconish welcomed one of the most prominent voices in American sports throughout recent decades onto his show and what that voice said was quite frankly deplorable.

The host asked Costas to clarify before he went into a rant that he was not supporting Trump in the upcoming election.

“Yes, absolutely,” Costas said. “He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history. He’s only become more disgraceful since 2016 and since 2020. He has a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits.”

BOB COSTAS: Trump is ‘the most disgraceful figure’ in history, his supporters a ‘toxic cult’

“You have to be in the throes of some sort of toxic delusion in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been, in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or… pic.twitter.com/MLBdVfL3WN

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 26, 2024

Costas has a right to his opinion, and he’s wealthy and thus largely insulated from the problems Americans and sports fans face — issues such as immigrant crime, fentanyl overdose deaths and the reality that grilling on game days is now cost-prohibitive for people.

He then unloaded on ordinary Americans whose only wish is to preserve their country by electing someone who will not permit an invasion by male foreign nationals.

Costas said people who do not intend to vote for more inflation, more war, more debt and less prosperity this November are all in a “cult”

“It’s only those who are actually suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, which is the way they and Fox News and all the rest of MAGA media try to brush aside all the legitimate criticisms of Trump,” he told CNN’s viewers.

He continued, “You have to be in the throes of some sort of toxic delusion and in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been, in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually or ethically fit to be president of the United States. But his supporters are locked in on that.”

Costas offered some criticism of Biden, but he laughably concluded, “There is no cult of Joe Biden.”

Joe Biden is accused of sitting atop a scheme in which his family cashed in on his name and then paid him for it.

Joe Biden allows thousands of military-aged men to enter this country daily for no valid reason. Last week, one of them allegedly murdered a nursing student in Georgia who was out for a jog.

The president has made grocery shopping unsustainable, and he lied and embellished his way into making the American dream a fantasy.

There is a cult of Biden that excuses his failures and his abuse of Americans, and Costas is so deeply involved he can’t see it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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