CBS network leaders hampered their former reporter Catherine Herridge’s efforts to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop story in defiance of CEO George Cheeks’ orders.
In a new video posted on X, Herridge alleges that network executives obstructed her reporting on the bombshell laptop story.
“George Cheeks said to me on multiple occasions that this was a story of the highest priority for the network and that it was a high priority for his boss, Shari Redstone,” Herridge said.
However, there “were some elements within CBS News that were just resistant to it,” she explained.
Herridge had obtained a clean forensic copy of the laptop data that was identical to what was given to the FBI. She argued that it should be published before the 2022 midterm elections. Yet, the network delayed the story until after the midterms. “My training is that you should…