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Bozell Rips CBS for Seizing Herridge’s Files as Network Seems Set to Return Them

On Friday, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell sent a letter to CBS and CBS News lambasting the Tiffany Network for their troubling and unprecedented decision to seize the files of correspondent Catherine Herridge – including notes and files that contain sensitive information and government sources – upon her sudden firing as part of layoffs from parent company Paramount Global.

Thankfully, based on a statement from Herridge’s union SAG-AFTRA and CBS itself, the network appears set to fold after having messed with the wrong reporter.

Bozell called the seizure – which was first reported by Jonathan Turley in his column for The Hill – a “journalistic malpractice” and “unquestionably against journalistic standards”, adding CBS laying her off “has damaged its reputation and journalism as a whole”.

He then turned up the…

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