Well, it's been another week of bad, terrible, and downright horrible news.

And that's true on multiple fronts.

Obviously, the health care story, the hospital story is first and

foremost. There's a political story that continues to be disturbing. And then

there's an economic story about an economic coma that may last for a very long time.

So let's get smarter about that part of the story.

Let's cue the music and start this week's Reliable

Sources podcast. I'm your host Brian Stelter coming to you again this week from

my apartment in New York City. We've been figuring out how to remotely tape these

podcasts in the same way that hundreds of media companies have been figuring out new

ways to broadcast and report and do it all from remote locations.

I'm recording this on Friday, April 3rd,

the end of the week that saw an official March

unemployment report come out, but that report was incomplete to the point of

being misleading because what we are seeing every week with applications for

unemployment benefits. The jobs claims, they are staggering. They are terrifying. They are a massive

story. And I know I'm not an expert in this, but I want to bring in an expert to talk with us about what reporters should know and what everyone should know while covering this economic collapse in the weeks and perhaps months to come.

Catherine Rampel is a National Aid Society. the weeks and perhaps months to come.

Catherine Rampel is a nationally syndicated columnist

for the Washington Post.

She focuses primarily on the economy, policy, and culture.

And she's joining me now, Catherine, thanks for coming on.

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