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On Brand with Donny Deutsch

Brian Stelter: Understanding How Media Works

On Brand with Donny Deutsch

Donny Deutsch Podcast Admin

News, Entertainment News, News Commentary, Arts

4.6 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Donny is joined by the former Chief Media Correspondent for CNN and former host of the CNN program “Reliable Sources”, Brian Stelter. Brian, who is also a New York Times best-selling author, discusses his departure from CNN, how he would fix the network, and what he thinks of the way television and media are being run today. Also, Donny and Brian dive into politics and how certain TV personalities seem to perform their way into true belief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm thrilled to today's guest Brian Stelter. I've been a big fan for years way back to when he was a Jimmy Olsen cub reporter at the New York Times at age 22

0:17.2

Doing the media beat there and talking about advertising stuff that's near and dear to my heart

0:22.0

He started his career very young, kind of

0:25.4

of launching TV news a while at Towson State. Of course for nine years he hosted

0:29.5

the hit show Reliable Sources. We're going to talk a lot about that, which I miss very much, one of my favorite shows.

0:35.1

Best-selling author, two books, Top of the Morning hoax, Donald Trump, Fox News,

0:38.3

and The Dangerous Distortion of Truth.

0:39.9

Two great books.

0:42.0

He recently joined the Walter

0:43.5

Shortstein Media and Democracy Fellowship at the Harvard

0:46.4

Kennedy School. He recently hosted a panel, Clear and Present

0:48.8

Danger, with Disinformation to World Economic Forum, meeting and Davos.

0:51.6

An important media voice.

0:52.6

Thanks for joining us, my friend.

0:54.1

I'm thrilled to be here, thank you.

0:56.8

So how did this whole thing,

0:58.2

I just want to start at the little beginning,

0:59.7

how did this, I mean, you're Tousin State,

1:02.0

and all of a sudden you just, where did you get the balls to just like start TV news or like you're in car I was sitting there just smoking weed in college my whole time you know?

1:10.0

Well I needed money for beer so I launched the blog and turned into a job.

1:15.0

Actually, I was just, I was, you know, I was a TV news junkie and I created the website that I wanted to read.

1:24.0

And I feel like that's what I have in common with others who launch

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