Dr. Nicole Baldwin on how to rebut Covid-19 misinformation and how the media should cover the Delta variant

Reliable Sources

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Cincinnati pediatrician Dr. Nicole Baldwin, who recently asked President Biden about vaccine misinformation at a CNN town hall, talks with Brian Stelter about what she's seeing on the front lines of the vaccination effort. She describes the challenges she faces on social platforms and in her community, offering tips for tackling misinformation. She points out, "The anti-vaccine community doesn't have to prove anything... As long as they plant that seed of doubt... they've won." 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	As vaccine hesitancy mutates to vaccine hostility or outright refusal.
0:08.3	What is the role of the press?
0:09.8	What is the role of the media in breaking through with the divided and generally exhausted
0:16.1	public?
0:17.9	And now as it feels like we're slipping backwards in this pandemic, what questions should
0:23.2	reporters be asking, well, those are some of the questions for this week's Reliable
0:28.3	Resources podcast.
0:29.6	So let's cue the music.
0:31.7	On Brian Seltor and this weekly podcast is our chance to go in depth with media leaders
0:37.0	and newsmakers.
0:38.5	Talking about how the media really works and how the media affects the stories we cover.
0:44.4	This week was so much news about COVID front and center amid changing guidance from the
0:49.8	CDC and serious outbreaks among the unvaccinated in some states.
0:55.8	I want to bring in a guest who you may have seen on the television edition of Reliable
1:00.5	Sources.
1:01.7	On the July 25th episode of Reliable Sources, we interviewed Dr. Nicole Baldwin, a pediatrician
1:07.5	from Cincinnati, Ohio, who had taken the stage, so to speak, at the CNN town hall with
1:13.6	President Biden earlier in the week.
1:17.0	Dr. Baldwin asked a question to Biden about the plague of misinformation on social platforms.
1:23.6	So I thought it would be interesting to book her and talk about the town hall and talk
1:27.0	about her experience firsthand on the front lines of this pandemic.
1:31.8	So we were able to talk with Dr. Baldwin for a few minutes live on CNN, but then all
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