222. Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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CSPAN's full coverage of hearing testimony by investigative journalists Sharyl Attkisson and Catherine Herridge, April 11, 2024: "Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources, House Judiciary Committee." Attkisson also discusses being spied on by the US government and her lawsuit to hold federal agents accountable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:05.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast, |
| 0:12.0 | a full replay of the |
| 0:13.3 | general a-charson podcast a full replay of the recent hearing where I testified before |
| 0:16.1 | Congress with Catherine Harridge about pressing journalism issues. On April 11th, |
| 0:25.0 | 11th, Catherine Herridge and I testified at a congressional hearing called |
| 0:29.8 | Fighting for a Free Press, protecting journalists and their sources. |
| 0:33.9 | It was before the House Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:36.8 | The impetus was a law that passed the House with bipartisan support. |
| 0:41.0 | It's called the Press Act. |
| 0:42.0 | I think it passed in January. |
| 0:44.1 | The Senate, for whatever reason, apparently, isn't anxious to take it up. |
| 0:48.2 | And the House was hoping that this hearing would help put pressure on the Senate to take |
| 0:52.2 | up the Press Act and pass it. |
| 0:54.0 | Among other things, the Press Act would allow journalists to protect their sources |
| 0:59.0 | by not letting courts force them to reveal names. |
| 1:02.0 | Catherine Herridge, formerly of Fox News and CBS, is being fined $800 a day for withholding the name of a source and a story that she covered. |
| 1:12.0 | The Press Act also has another |
| 1:14.4 | provision that would make it where the intelligence agencies and federal |
| 1:18.8 | government cannot get information about journalists from Verizon and other telecommunications firms without a warrant. |
| 1:27.2 | So we talked about a lot of that and also about inappropriate political influence on news |
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