August 2, 2020: Stelter on why election coverage will be different this year; campaign aide explains Biden's media strategy

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🗓️ 2 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... Many Fox viewers changed the channel during John Lewis funeral; pandemic disinformation is wasting precious time; how the AP is prepping to cover 'election week' in 2020; 'Election Meltdown' author on Trump's threat to democracy; why was Homeland Security collecting 'intel' on journalists?; James Murdoch breaks with family's media empire; how news outlets can empower voters in 2020. Susan Glasser, Erin Geiger Smith, Richard Hasen, Sally Buzbee, TJ Ducklo and Errol Louis join Brian Stelter.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources.
0:05.0	Our weekly look at the story behind the story.
0:08.0	Ahead this hour, why misinformation about miracle cures is just worsening America's pandemic pain.
0:15.8	Plus, new reporting about one member of the Murdoch family
0:19.0	making a dramatic break from the family business.
0:22.2	And later, what is the GOP doing? Why are they
0:25.4	claiming the Republican National Convention will be closed to press? What is going
0:29.8	on? A new statement from the party coming up in minutes.
0:33.0	But first, an election mess in the making,
0:36.0	with three months before ballots will be counted.
0:40.0	Picture all of us Americans in a car together.
0:44.1	President Trump is the driver,
0:46.6	and he is trying to drive us off the road.
0:49.6	He is trying to crash the car.
0:52.6	In this analogy, the car is our democracy.
0:55.6	It is old, it's got a lot of miles on it,
0:57.5	but it's still running strong.
0:59.2	It's been well maintained.
1:00.4	It stays humming along.
1:02.0	It stays on the road through voting, through elections.
1:05.0	But the driver, ever since 2016, I don't know.
1:10.0	Either he wants to go off-roading,
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