{"id":155212,"date":"2024-04-06T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155212"},"modified":"2024-04-05T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T00:19:48","slug":"sycophantic-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155212","title":{"rendered":"Sycophantic Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/press-230x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/press-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/press-255x333.png 255w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/press.png 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know, nothing new (for those unfamiliar with the term, substitute <del datetime=\"2024-04-05T23:30:27+00:00\">blowing their master<\/del> <del datetime=\"2024-04-05T23:30:27+00:00\">ass kissing<\/del> sucking up to the Party.<\/p>\n<p>Was once a lady named Catherine Herridge. She worked for CBS News, and did much of the leg-work on the Hunter Biden story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Catherine Herridge, the ex-CBS News correspondent who saw her files seized by the network after her controversial firing in February, is set to break her silence before the House Judiciary Committee, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The acclaimed investigative journalist, known for her reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, will testify next week before the powerful panel on the still-murky circumstances surrounding her exit from CBS News, according to a source close to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Herridge, SAG-AFTRA chief news and broadcast officer Mary Cavallaro will speak about the union\u2019s negotiations with CBS to return Herridge\u2019s confidential materials after she was let go, according to the source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She won&#8217;t be alone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House Judiciary Committee also will hear testimony from former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who quit the network in 2014 over claims that\u00a0CBS killed stories that put then-President Barack Obama in a bad light, according to the source.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of her exit, Attkisson claimed she was spied on by a \u201cgovernment-related entity\u201d that planted classified documents on her computer.<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/04\/media\/catherine-herridge-to-break-silence-at-capitol-hill-hearing\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=referral\">NY Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Might also recognize Herridge&#8217;s name from when she was ruled in contempt for not releasing the name of her source to the government for a piece she wrote in 2017 on an investigation of a Chinese-American scientist. The judge, an Obama appointee, basically ruled that the government could override the confidentiality of a reporter&#8217;s source if it felt like it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/02\/media\/catherine-herridge-deposition-reliable-sources\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in further news, Sage Steele (sounds like a male porn star&#8217;s name, doesn&#8217;t it?) formerly of Sports Center on ESPN did an interview with President Biden back in March of 2021. She says now that ESPN execs insisted that she not deviate AT ALL from the script that they had drawn up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was very much \u2018This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next,&#8217;\u201d Steele told Fox, adding that each question was \u201cgone over dozens of times by many editors and executives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steele said she wasn\u2019t certain whether ESPN had sent the questions to the White House in advance of the interview.<\/p>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\">\n<p>However, she was confident that is \u201cwhat happened\u201d as her bosses at the time were so adamant that she stick to the script.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told, \u2018You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script,\u2019\u201d she said. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/03\/media\/sage-steele-reveals-biden-interview-was-scripted-by-espn-execs\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=referral\">NY Post II<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\">\n<p>Nothing like good old fashioned spontaneity and hardball reporting, huh. But she did say Biden sounded clueless in the interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo I can hear him and he goes, \u2018What is this for? Wait \u2014 what\u2019s her name?\u2019\u201d Steele recounted as Maher (Bill Maher &#8211; ed.)started laughing.<\/p>\n<p>And so he started to tell football stories of his greatness,\u201d Steele recounted, noting she still could not see him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe goes, \u2018I have the best hands.\u2019 What do you say to that?\u201d Steele asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And here\u2019s the saddest thing his voice just trailed off. He said, \u2018I was good,\u2019 and then he went silent, and he goes \u2026, \u2018Uh, never mind.\u2019\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/he-struggled-to-finish-sentences-former-espn-host-sage-steele-says-interviewing-joe-biden-is-the-saddest-thing-101696557368337.html\">Hindustan Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I know, nothing new (for those unfamiliar with the term, substitute blowing their master ass &hellip; <a title=\"Sycophantic Media\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155212\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sycophantic Media<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}