CBS and the Hunter laptop story

 Newsmax:

Catherine Herridge, a former CBS News investigative journalist, has accused the network of resisting orders from top executives, including CBS CEO George Cheeks and media heiress Shari Redstone, to prioritize investigating Hunter Biden's laptop scandal, raising questions about editorial independence, the New York Post reported.

Herridge has leveled serious allegations against her previous employer, claiming that network executives resisted directives from top leadership to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop scandal thoroughly.

In a video posted Tuesday on X, Herridge stated that Cheeks repeatedly emphasized that the investigation was a "high priority," an order that reportedly came directly from Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS parent company Paramount Global.

"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. Despite this, she noted significant internal resistance to pursuing the story.

According to Herridge, the laptop's contents, which included emails and texts suggesting potential corruption involving President Joe Biden's son, sparked sharp divisions within the newsroom. While some colleagues supported the probe, others opposed it, citing concerns that transcended the factual findings. "It didn't matter what the facts of the case really were, and this bothered me as a journalist a lot," she said.

Herridge also disclosed that her direct supervisors, including Washington Bureau Chief Mark Lima and CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, hindered her reporting. She alleged that critical stories were shelved in the early stages of the laptop revelations. Among the suppressed material were details of a "million-dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm" and other emails linked to Hunter Biden's business dealings.
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Social media also tried to block the story.  I get the impression that some in the media wanted to block the evidence of the Biden family monetizing of the office of the president because they feared it would help Trump get elected.  Management and Herridge were an exception to that effort.

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