It seems the corporate media had just one real journalist, and now the powers that be are doing everything within and outside their power to crush her.
Catherine Herridge was fired from CBS after investigating Hunter Biden, and then her company demanded she hand over all her research into the president's son in an obvious attempt to cover for the president.
Now that one good journalist is facing contempt charges and an $800 a-day fine for refusing to give up her sources from a 2017 investigative report.
Because the Feds hate real journalism.
A federal judge on Thursday held veteran journalist Catherine Herridge in contempt of court, fining her $800 a day for refusing to divulge her sources for a series of stories published in 2017 while she was a correspondent at Fox News...
Remember when Donald Trump was a threat to journalism because he called people like Jim Acosta "fake news"? Now we have federal judges holding journalists in contempt, but only when the reporting hurts one side.
A 2017 Fox story showed that Yanping Chen, a Chinese scientist, was the subject of an FBI investigation because the DoD was funding Chen who was allegedly tied to the Chinese military. Chen was never charged and now she's suing the FBI and Herridge is not ratting out her source who confirmed the FBI investigation.
Herridge, who left Fox News in 2019 and was recently laid off by CBS News, refused in September to disclose the sources used for her stories, defying a court order issued earlier in the year by the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The order from Judge Christopher Cooper came as a result of a lawsuit filed by Chinese American scientist Yanping Chen against the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Citing documents reviewed by Fox News, Herridge reported that Chen was the subject of an investigation by the FBI. Chen, who was never charged, has alleged that federal authorities improperly leaked information about her, violating the Privacy Act.
So, a real journalist investigating and exposing potential Chinese spying is being held in contempt so that the feds can punish an FBI agent who might have leaked info about the investigation.
If journalism isn't already dead, this is a shot across the bow.
'Holding a journalist in contempt for protecting a confidential source has a deeply chilling effect on journalism,' a network spokesperson said in a statement. 'FOX News Media remains committed to protecting the rights of a free press and freedom of speech and believes this decision should be appealed.'
Herridge declined to comment and pointed to previous legal motions challenging the decision to hold her in contempt.
But at least we don't have a president tweeting mean things about the press?
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