Renowned law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley dropped a bombshell on Thursday about the recent layoffs at CBS News, including celebrated investigative journalist Catherine Herridge. Turley reported in a column that after Herridge was fired, “CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers, and records, including information on privileged sources,” which allegedly violated her contract.
According to Turley, multiple current and former CBS employees were stunned:
I have spoken confidentially with current and former CBS employees who have stated that they could not recall the company ever taking such a step before. One former CBS journalist said that many employees “are confused why [Herridge] was laid off, as one of the correspondents who broke news regularly and did a lot of original reporting.”
The last part of the above quote explains precisely why, in the eyes of many, Herridge was dumped by CBS: She “broke news regularly and did a lot of original reporting.” In other words, the veteran journalist practiced journalism as it was intended to be practiced — vs. the bastardization of news by liberal media sock puppets.