Fired CBS reporter reveals bosses blocked her Elon Musk interview

Fired CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge claims her former bosses blocked an exclusive interview she had snagged with Elon Musk in early 2023 — because they were afraid what the outspoken tech mogul might say.In a video posted to X, Herridge revealed that she approached CBS execs with the opportunity to interview Musk, who had been in the news for his release of the Twitter files in late 2022 to a handful of tech and media journalists.

The reporters published the files, which shed light on how Twitter was secretly “blacklisting” conservative tweets and users, including its baseless decision to censor The Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop scoop in the run up to the 2020 election.Musk, who bought Twitter and renamed it X in 2022, indicated to Herridge that he would sit down with her and do a live interview, which would be broadcast on X.Herridge had been investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal for CBS at the behest of Shari Redstone, the media mogul whose Paramount empire controlled CBS News, and CBS CEO George Cheeks, the reporter also revealed on Tuesday, but noted previously that she had encountered roadblocks in her reporting.“I went to the CBS executives and I said, this is the opportunity that we have.

He’s saying, ‘I want to do it live and on my platform’, I was like, oh my gosh, this is an incredible opportunity,” Herridge recounts in the video.“Elon Musk on CBS News! He’s one of the most influential human beings on the planet, and the reaction from the executives was, ‘well, we can’t do it live.'”Herridge was perplexed since it;s usually beneficial for an interview to be granted with no conditions over the content.“‘I was like, what do you mean we can’t do it live?’,” she asked, to which she said higher-ups said: “‘Well, we don’t know what he’s going to say.'”Exasperated, Herridge tells viewers: “I’m thinking, isn’t that the point of journalism? You don’t know what the person’s goi...