Garrett Graff on the 'collective experience' of Covid-19, the media coverage, and Trump's disinformation

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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"We are living through a united, national moment," Garrett Graff says, likening the pandemic to WWII and 9/11. Despite the "paucity of national inspirational leadership," Graff highlights how "much of the nation's response has been driven by individuals at the local level." Graff also tells Brian Stelter about his decision to compile an "oral history" about the coronavirus crisis. He says the project is vital because "we're all losing track of time... We're all stuck in a weird 'Groundhog Day' loop that is causing us to really lose sight of the momentousness of the changes in our lives."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	1941, 1963, 2001, 2008, and 2020, will this crisis live in infamy along with those dates with those
0:19.0	years with those experiences? What can we learn from past disasters and crises and moments of
0:28.0	panic and moments of unity? Is there anything quite like the moment we are living through today?
0:35.0	Those are just some of my questions here on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.
0:41.0	So let's cue the music. I'm Brian Selter. As you know, this is our
0:46.4	weekly Reliable Sources Podcast. The reason why we let to get together on this
0:51.6	podcast once a week is to have in-depth conversations
0:55.4	with media leaders and newsmakers to talk about how the media world really works and how the
0:59.9	news gets made. This is such a strange time in America and all around the world and
1:06.7	right now the news is getting made in new and interesting ways, mostly remotely.
1:11.3	This is the first time that I'm trying to tape a
1:13.9	podcast at home on my laptop computer in my apartment. And my guest is also
1:19.2	remote. I'm joined this week by Garrett Graf.
1:23.1	He's a CNN contributor and writer for Wired,
1:25.9	the author of numerous books, most recently,
1:28.7	the only plane in the sky,
1:30.5	an oral history of 9-11. He's joining me from his home in Burlington, Vermont and
1:35.2	we're taping this on Friday, March 27th talking about the coronavirus crisis,
1:40.8	how this national emergency is being covered, and whether there's anything comparable
1:46.6	in our past.
1:48.6	Garrett, thanks for joining me.
1:50.0	Thanks for having me, Brian.
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