Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine

the story behind the story and figure out what is Reliable.

This hour, Mike Lindell no longer embed with Fox News, a reporter who dined with Lindell

is here to explain why this is no laughing matter.

Plus, what does political affinity, when does political affinity, cross into dangerous

cult-like support?

Congresswoman Jackie Spire, who survived the Jones down massacre, is here to share her

perspective.

And later, what Scarlett Johansson and Simone Biles have in common, two of the week's biggest

stories in the media world and in the business world.

We're going to link those a little bit later, but first, it is time for a reset.

A reset in how COVID-19 is covered by the media, given that there is so much confusion

right now.

It is, as so many public health experts seem saying, a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

So the news coverage needs to reflect that.

For example, the word cases doesn't mean the same thing it did a year ago, because a breakthrough

case when vaccinated, when you were infected and vaccinated, it is very, very different

from a case when unvaccinated.

And about that word breakthrough, there's not enough data to really know how often

it happens.

That is a problem, a significant problem.

But the data is crystal clear that the vaccines are preventing hospitalization and deaths.

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