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a kennedy

(29,482 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 09:25 AM Oct 2019

Another faux noise talking head jumping ship......and going to CBS

In another major defection from the newsroom of Fox News, Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent.

Herridge, Fox's chief intelligence correspondent, was a founding employee of Fox News in 1996 and a leader in the network's Washington bureau. She was in talks to join CBS before Shep Smith, also a founding Fox employee, resigned on October 11 in the middle of a multi-year contract, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
Catherine Herridge is leaving Fox News for CBS.

Herridge's Fox contract expired over the summer. Fox wanted her to renew, but knew her exit was a possibility, one of the sources said. Friday will be her last day.

In a statement released through Fox, Herridge thanked Fox patriarch Rupert Murdoch "for the opportunity to cover the most impactful stories of the last 23 years, most recently the Special Counsel report and impeachment inquiry. I have received great personal satisfaction from mentoring the next generation of reporters and producers and sharing my journalistic values — that facts matter and enterprise reporting will always win the day."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/media/catherine-herridge-fox-news-cbs/index.html

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Another faux noise talking head jumping ship......and going to CBS (Original Post) a kennedy Oct 2019 OP
Barf MagickMuffin Oct 2019 #1
Agree. She'd need a brain transplant to not be a taint. Hortensis Oct 2019 #7
She's a really good reporter. pintobean Oct 2019 #2
Are you familiar with her work? DesertRat Nov 2019 #12
Working for Fox should be a permanent stain on a reporter's career. Beakybird Oct 2019 #3
Shep Smith is a good man, gab13by13 Oct 2019 #4
Perhaps. But I suspect Smith's primary... Whiskeytide Oct 2019 #5
Last time I saw her she was reporting Taylor's testimony Watchfoxheadexplodes Oct 2019 #6
just retire! riversedge Oct 2019 #8
Perhaps they aren't defecting, like a virus they might just be spreading to other cells. TheBlackAdder Oct 2019 #9
Seeking asylum? Or infiltrating? OxQQme Oct 2019 #10
CBS also has that male talking head X faux noise guy.....ah, Major Garrett right?? a kennedy Oct 2019 #11

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Agree. She'd need a brain transplant to not be a taint.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 10:00 AM
Oct 2019

People don't spend years lying to the nation and spreading fear and division, and even hate, and somehow just decide to become honest people of good character and judgement. Our brains don't work that way.

Just looked and Herridge has been with Fox since the very beginning. Among many other things, she was there when Fox joined other RW media trolling the nation for assassins to kill Obama. All day long.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
12. Are you familiar with her work?
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 02:46 PM
Nov 2019

I don't watch Faux News so I have no idea whether she's a "really good reporter". But apparently facts didn't seem to be an issue for her during her years at FOX.

Beakybird

(3,329 posts)
3. Working for Fox should be a permanent stain on a reporter's career.
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 09:42 AM
Oct 2019

No reputable media company should hire them lest their dedication to the truth be questioned.

Whiskeytide

(4,459 posts)
5. Perhaps. But I suspect Smith's primary...
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 09:56 AM
Oct 2019

... role with the network was to merely give it a veneer of legitimacy. He has to realize and accept that. Surely he sometimes watched the shit that aired around him, right? He was therefore part of the charade.

Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)
6. Last time I saw her she was reporting Taylor's testimony
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 10:00 AM
Oct 2019

When she finished kilmeade does the

But Catherine
Is it also true Catherine
Catherine didn't he also say

Look on her face was

DID YOU NOT HEAR ME?

LOL

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
10. Seeking asylum? Or infiltrating?
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 12:30 PM
Oct 2019

It seems that there are wall builders here, that would allow zero crossovers from the other side.

If a sister came to me and said, "I lay awake at night thinking of our differences.
You've made some compelling points about the prevailing wrongness of my views.
I accept that I drank the koolaid. I can't take it any more. I wish to make amends with you."

Welcome? Big hugs?
"Come on in. I've got some cold brewskis and a warm fire."

or "GET OFF MY LAWN!" and slam the door in their face?

As a bonus plus - Catherine carries fauxsnuz's playbook.


a kennedy

(29,482 posts)
11. CBS also has that male talking head X faux noise guy.....ah, Major Garrett right??
Thu Oct 31, 2019, 01:16 PM
Oct 2019

wonder if he's still there, haven't seen him in awhile, is he still there?? I don't as a rule watch CBS.

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