Late Thursday afternoon, a Washington D.C.-based federal district court judge moved to hold former Fox News and CBS News journalist Catherine Herridge in contempt of court for refusing to burn her sources from a 2017 story while at Fox News about a federal probe into a Chinese-American scientist who was never charged.
The news came just over two weeks after Herridge was suddenly fired from CBS as part of layoffs across its parent company, Paramount Global, and briefly had her files seized (which included confidential information) from CBS.
Not surprisingly, none of the major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — cared enough to cite this actual attack on press freedoms on their flagship Friday morning news shows. Unfortunately, it was the same story on the major cable networks as well of MSNBC, NewsNation, and even the Fox News Channel.
If this were a…
