CBS News is facing heavy criticism and backlash following the firing of award-winning senior correspondent Catherine Herridge, RadarOnline.com has learned. Herridge, who had been with the network since 2019 after leaving Fox News, was one of 20 CBS News staffers to lose their jobs as part of a larger layoff of 800 employees across parent company Paramount Global. The decision to terminate Herridge’s employment left viewers and journalists outraged. Sources close to the network’s Washington bureau where Herridge worked expressed “shock and dismay” at CBS’s actions. “People can’t make sense of t…