Comeuppance day for the press. Again.

Gomez Adams

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Judge Christopher Cooper, of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a ruling to compel CBS News senior correspondent Catherine Herridge to participate in a deposition regarding the identity of a confidential source or sources she used for a series of 2017 stories published while she worked at Fox News.​
The order came as a result of a lawsuit filed by Chinese American scientist Yanping Chen against the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Citing documents reviewed by Fox News, Herridge reported that Chen was the subject of a federal counterintelligence probe. Chen has alleged that federal authorities improperly leaked information about her, violating the Privacy Act.​
In an effort to prove her case, Chen subpoenaed Herridge and Fox News, with the hope of unmasking the source(s) for the stories. Fox News and Herridge have aggressively fought the move, arguing that Cooper should quash the subpoenas because of First Amendment protections afforded to the press.​
This is why confidential informants should be done away with. Half of them are fake and don't even exist, allowing the press to make up whatever story they want. The other half are breaking the law for revealing information they shouldn't.

We have whistle-blower laws for a reason. Confidential informants for the media are simply a vehicle of corruption to make money.
 
I know of three cases they forced the reporter to reveal their source. In all three cases it turned out there was no source. They had literally just made it all up and attributed it all to a confidential source. Twice it was from USA Today newspaper. Once from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
 
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