Brian Stelter, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources"

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent and the host of Reliable Sources, talks with Recode's Peter Kafka in front of a live audience at South by Southwest. In this episode: How Stelter figures out what to focus on in his coverage; President Trump’s tweets; covering more issues and fewer insults in the 2020 race; the Democrats’ breakup with Fox News; name-calling among journalists; Stelter’s extremely public online life; the Twitter “sewer”; the Twitter-TV-Trump cycle and how social media amplifies cable news’ reach; the ongoing power of TV and CNN as an institution; cord-cutting and how cable stays relevant; the Apple TV adaptation of Stelter’s book; when CNN or its owner AT&T is the news; media is in a "Trump bump," but would there have been a “Clinton bump?”; do Democrats need to be as crazy as Trump to get airtime?; gender bias in how female candidates are covered; and correcting for the mistakes the media made in 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:45.0	as we speak. In a second, we're going to go to Austin, Texas, where I spoke with Brian Stelter.
1:50.7	You guys know who Brian is. He's on CNN all the time. He makes an awesome newsletter. He has an
1:55.2	awesome podcast. He's been on this podcast before. And truth be told, just between us, he's a really
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