Posted on 02/23/2024 2:17:15 AM PST by Libloather
In what way?
CBS retaining corporate property isn’t a First Amendment issue.
If you’re arguing that the Bidet Admin told CBS that they’d “be doing the country a favor” by firing 800 reporters (including Mrs X) and handing over to a Man in a Trenchcoat Mrs X’s papers and laptop and SS#, well….
In the first place, it is intellectual property explicitly tailored for dissemination in the interest of the oublic good.
In the second place, if I may ask, why is Herridge singled out here? Clearly it is not a common practice in the journalism industry, as her colleagues have said.
The short of it is thus: jouralism is not your typical corporate industry manufacturing tangible goods.
I disagree in part.
First, it’s not Herrod’s intellectual property unless she had a contractual agreement with her employer to retain all IP rights in her reporting and work. Such an arrangement, by the way, is VERY unusual. Not impossible but unusual. If that WAS the case, her lawyers would be all over that and we’d probably have that leaked to the press. Further, CBS would know darn well it’s her property and would tread lightly when firing her.
Second, Herridge was fired with hundreds of randos. The only entities singling her out are The Hill and the NY Post. And I would submit to you, the people ranting about “OMG they took HER stuff” are at best ignorant about what happens in the process of firing people.
I DO agree, journalism isn’t plumbing, contractor work, or automobile manufacturing. It’s actually less important. Nobody writes a pearl-clutching saga in the NY Post when a guy who worked for decades loyally has his job eliminated. Nobody sheds a tear that he couldn’t bring home a few really cool reports he wrote that made the company money. My electrician and mechanic are more valuable to this nation than a talking head.
Again, CBS is scum and it is totally possible Bidet wants his hands on her papers and laptop. If that’s at play, that’s criminal AND a 1st Amendment violation. It’s also worth noting, Ms Herridge did some good reporting and she donated part of her liver to her infant son (most of the media would probably abort their kid).
That said, this saga is about a member of the MSM who is on TV and lives in Manhattan, who earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a Master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. No disrespect meant to Ms. Herridge, but on paper she’s one of the “elite.” Forgive me if I don’t get my knickers in a twist.
Herridge may have been included in the mass firings, but unless CBS retained all the other journalist’s notes, sources, etc., it is not standard procedure.
I’m hoping she has all those files on a thumb drive; if so, nice try, KGB...I mean, CBS.
Twitter was filled with Leftists just like we always thought it was.
Elon definitely proved that.
On THAT, we are in total agreement.
CBS is owned by paramount
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