February 28, 2020: What CPAC revealed about the state of right-wing media; inside the NYT's diversity report; Stelter says 'don't get distracted'

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🗓️ 28 February 2021

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Plus... Rep. David Cicilline says "local news is on life support" and shares legislative plans; Jill Filipovic on left-wing critiques of Biden coverage; Farai Chideya on people who "act based on their team, not based on facts;" and more. Dave Weigel, Katie Rogers, Jill Filipovic, Farai Chideya, Rep. David Cicilline, Marty Baron and Carolyn Ryan join Brian Stelter. 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	Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine
0:07.4	the story behind the story and try to figure out what is reliable these days.
0:12.5	This hour, the White House Press Secretary addressing the declassified report about
0:16.2	Jamal Khashoggi's murder, will President Biden be pressured to take a stand against Saudi
0:21.3	Arabia?
0:22.3	Plus, Australian lawmakers making Facebook pony up, and what started there in Canberra
0:27.4	is not stopping there.
0:29.2	The U.S. lawmaker, David Cecilini, will join me live.
0:32.3	And later, the New York Times, releasing a damning self-assessment about diversity.
0:36.6	So what now?
0:37.6	What's going to change?
0:38.6	Deputy Managing Editor Carolyn Ryan will have answers, and we have some words of wisdom
0:43.0	coming up from retiring Washington Post-Editor Marty Barron.
0:46.8	That's all coming up in the next few minutes.
0:48.8	But first, let's look at how the high-mind of social media is making us all mindless.
0:55.4	One of the week's big political stories, the CPAC, the big conservative conference.
0:59.8	When I've been listening to the CPAC live stream, what I've been hearing are distractions.
1:04.8	It is an airing of grievances, a festival of resentment that doesn't help anyone.
1:10.5	There are also a lot of big lies about the election that are actively harming democracy.
1:15.2	CNN's fact check of the first day of CPAC came in at 3,300 words.
1:21.1	It's an entire book chapter, and it reflects the fact that some of the CPAC rhetoric is
1:25.8	just straight up disinformation.
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