CNN's media reporters reflect on the three months that changed everything — and what the next three months may bring

Reliable Sources

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Oliver Darcy, Kerry Flynn, Donie O'Sullivan, Frank Pallotta and Chloe Melas talk with Brian Stelter about all the ways the pandemic has upended the worlds of media, tech, and entertainment. "Even the media companies that I thought were the strongest and would be able to survive without making any cuts -- they've been forced" to make changes, Flynn says. Darcy and O'Sullivan call out the shortcomings of social media platforms. Pallotta and Melas discuss the movie, music and live event industries. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three months ago, everything changed, everything in society, everything in health and politics and pick your category.
0:09.0	So let's assess where the media business and the media world is three months into this pandemic.
0:15.6	Let's cue the music and welcome you to this week's Reliable Sources
0:20.3	Podcast. I'm your host Brian Stelter recording as I usually do now from my
0:25.5	bedroom in New York City. You know three months ago actually three months ago to
0:29.4	this day we had a very different podcast taping. We gathered all the CNN media reporters on a big studio set in New York City and we talked about the year's biggest media stories so far.
0:42.0	It was the end of February and everybody sensed that the pandemic,
0:46.1	well we didn't call it that yet. Everyone sensed that the coronavirus was the biggest story of the moment
0:51.2	but let's be honest nobody saw what was coming to this extent.
0:55.9	So let's talk about what the last three months have been like, what the biggest changes on the
0:59.4	media, tech, culture beats have been since the pandemic really arrived on American shores and let's look ahead to the next three months as well.
1:07.6	Frank Pilata and Chloe Milass will join me in a little bit but first let me bring in Oliver Darcy
1:13.4	Carrie Flynn and Donio Sullivan. Oliver you there?
1:17.0	I'm here. All right we're connected. Carrie how are you?
1:20.0	I'm doing okay how are you?
1:22.2	Same same I think.
1:24.0	And Doni, how are you?
1:26.0	Hey Brian, hey Oliver, hey Carrie.
1:28.0	Doni has a live shot coming up about one of the many breaking news stories of the day.
1:33.2	So let's get right to it, the three months that have changed everything.
1:37.1	Carrie, how would you describe the scope of the changes in the past three months, what's happened
1:42.4	to the media business due to this pandemic?
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