Key witness Catherine Herridge described seizing her records as ‘journalistic rape.’
Former CBS investigative journalist Catherine Herridge was the star at the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources.” She gave blistering testimony on the record, much to the delight of the GOP. While the purpose of the hearing is ostensibly to encourage the Senate to vote on the PRESS Act that already cleared the House in January, it also allowed some uncomfortable truths to be immortalized in the Congressional Record.
Alongside Herridge, Mary Cavallaro, Chief Broadcast Officer of SAG-AFTRA, and another investigative journalist, Sharyl Attkisson, were on hand to blast censorship and promote the First Amendment. Attkisson also left the CBS network in 2014 after she claimed…
