A 'split-screen' pandemic: Juliette Kayyem on covering Covid-19's dire death toll alongside vaccine distribution

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Juliette Kayyem, a Harvard lecturer and CNN national security analyst, talks about the balancing act of Covid-19 and how the coming months should be covered by the news media. She tells Brian Stelter that "the media can drive appropriate behavior" and combat pandemic fatigue. She also says the distribution of vaccines will be a “split screen” story and says responsible reporting can help with “vaccine hesitancy.” She says Fox News stars should do a public service by being vaccinated on camera. Kayyem and Stelter also discuss the role of the media more broadly during disasters, and how public trust may evolve during the Biden administration.

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0:00.0	The coming months of the COVID-19 pandemic will be like a split screen with more cases, more infections, more deaths on one side, but the vaccines on the other side.
0:13.0	So how should the press plan to cover both?
0:16.0	That's one of the questions for this week's reliable sources podcast.
0:20.0	So let's cue the music.
0:21.0	I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers.
0:29.0	Talking about how the media works, how the news gets made. There is so much news every single day about
0:37.3	the pandemic and all of the effects around the world. I was speaking with Juliet Chaim recently and she said to me if
0:45.5	if 2020 was just one long episode of misery, 2021 will be a split screen.
0:54.4	She told me she's increasingly optimistic about the months ahead,
0:57.9	and she's even made some vacation plans.
1:01.8	So I thought it'd be great to connect with her and ask her about the media's
1:06.0	responsibility and role in covering the months ahead, in reporting on the
1:11.5	rollout of the vaccines,
1:13.3	in addressing vaccine hesitancy, and more.
1:17.3	Kiam is a CNN national security analyst,
1:20.0	a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and a professor at
1:24.4	Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
1:27.1	And she's joining me now.
1:28.1	Juliet, great to talk with you.
1:30.1	Oh, it's my pleasure, Brian.
1:31.2	Thanks for having me.
1:32.1	The first positive thing that I had heard in months came from your Twitter feed not too long ago.
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