Catherine Herridge: Protecting Sources Is a Hill Worth Dying On
Catherine Herridge interviewing Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf in 2020. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
I hope I’m the last American journalist who has to spend years in federal court defending confidential sources. That’s why I support the PRESS Act.
If confidential sources are not protected, investigative journalism will die.
I know that sounds overly dramatic, and I know you’ve probably heard it a million times. But it’s true. I’ve been a TV correspondent for three networks—Fox, CBS, and ABC—across four decades. I’ve broken my share of stories about government wrongdoing, and I know for a fact tha…
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