3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Oliver Darcy, Donie O'Sullivan, Kerry Flynn, Frank Pallotta and Chloe Melas join Brian Stelter for a once-a-quarter conversation about the media industry, misinformation and more. Darcy and O'Sullivan discuss "echo chambers" that radicalize voters. Flynn and Melas analyze the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on newsrooms and Hollywood. Pallotta looks at how the media business is faring during the pandemic.
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0:00.0 | In the world of media news there is so much overlap with politics, with culture, with business, with entertainment. |
0:09.0 | So let's gather some of CNN's best reporters who cover media and all these other worlds and talk about what's happened |
0:14.8 | on their beats in the summertime, now, into the fall, and what's going to happen in the months to come. |
0:21.2 | All right, let's cue the music. |
0:23.5 | This is our weekly Reliable Sources podcast. |
0:26.3 | I am your host Brian Stelter. |
0:28.8 | And this weekly podcast is our way of going in depth, talking about what is going on in the media world what's working |
0:35.0 | what's not working and we have a lot to get to so let's get right to the first of our many |
0:40.8 | guests this week. |
0:43.2 | We try to do this every three months or so. |
0:45.0 | We gather CNN's media reporters from all over the place. |
0:49.0 | We last did this at the end of May. |
0:52.3 | Think about how much has changed since the end of May. Think about how much has changed since the end of May. |
0:55.0 | In a few minutes we will bring in Carrie Flynn, Chloe Mellas, and Frank Pilata. |
0:59.0 | But first, let's bring Oliver Darcy and Donio Sullivan, who a lot of the time these days they're on the misinformation or the disinformation beat. |
1:08.0 | Doni, tell us about what you've been up to lately because you've just published a story and a video about a Trump rally. |
1:16.6 | Why did you decide to go and ask people to show you their Facebook feeds? |
1:21.6 | Yeah Brian, you know, I think we write every day about fact checks and we're fact checking, you know, viral |
1:28.8 | misinformation about the election. A lot of it coming from the Trump campaign, and you know, we're covering how tech companies like |
1:36.0 | Facebook and Twitter for the most part are just allowing this misinformation run rampant. |
1:42.1 | And I guess I sort of live in fear at the moment, you know, we are |
1:45.2 | missing a huge part of the story about this election and that we really don't have a full |
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