December 6, 2020: What Biden reads and watches; how Trump's junk-food media diet hurt his White House; why the BBC is investigating its infamous 1995 interview of Princess Diana
Reliable Sources
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🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Plus... Tom Friedman says "I pray to God" I don't have to write more Trump columns; how the AP is handling Trump's election denialism; meet a radio host who intervenes with callers who dismiss Covid-19 dangers. Evan Osnos, Thomas Friedman, Julie Pace, David Kessler, Dr. Esther Choo, Jeff Deminski and Andrew Neil join Brian Stelter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Stelter. Welcome to Reliable Sources. This is where we examine the story behind the story and figure out what is reliable. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, this hour we're going to introduce you to a brand new reliable CNN contributor who knows |
| 0:14.8 | Joe Biden better than almost anyone. |
| 0:17.0 | Plus how news sources are covering a shrinking, flailing President Trump. |
| 0:21.5 | We're going to go inside one of the nation's top newsrooms for insights. |
| 0:25.4 | We are also going to show you the reason why one New Jersey radio host has snapped. |
| 0:30.0 | He says he is so angry talking about coronavirus. |
| 0:32.6 | Hear from him coming up. |
| 0:33.9 | And later, it is the interview that changed |
| 0:35.8 | the course of royal history 25 years ago. |
| 0:39.1 | Now, I am Martin Bashir and the BBC |
| 0:41.3 | are facing tough new questions. We're going to go live to London |
| 0:45.1 | coming up. But first, here is a unique way to evaluate presidents. Just look |
| 0:51.0 | at their diets. Look at what they are consuming. I'm talking about |
| 0:54.8 | their media diets and what those diets reveal about their leadership because |
| 0:59.7 | policy personnel picks everything flows from sources of information and we all |
| 1:04.9 | know about Trump's top sources. Talk shows on Fox News have distorted his view of |
| 1:09.7 | the world and his presidency has suffered as a result. |
| 1:13.0 | In my view, the junk food weighed him down and contributed to his defeat in November. |
| 1:18.0 | But some of these shows keep telling him that he won. |
| 1:21.0 | They are deceiving millions of people including the outgoing president. |
| 1:25.0 | It is a feedback loop of fictions that is fundamentally why Trump's final days in office |
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