How the media should cover Omicron and the Covid surge

Reliable Sources

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🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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David Leonhardt and Katherine Wu discuss how Covid risk calculations are changing. Derek Thompson says there are "three circles of risk." Plus, Carl Bernstein says the voting rights fight is the top story for newsrooms. 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
0:06.1	the story behind the story, and we figure out what's reliable.
0:10.0	This hour was it the worst week in Fox News history?
0:12.9	I'll explain how Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram caught up in two scandals, how it's all
0:17.9	actually linked together.
0:19.5	Plus, breaking news about Joe Manchin and the fate of the Bill Back Better Bill, a clear
0:24.4	setback for President Biden, and on a week of setbacks for Biden, the vice president
0:29.1	is speaking out.
0:30.1	You have to see what happened in this interview with Charlemagne the God, Oliver Darcy,
0:35.0	Claire Acatson, Carl Bernstein, many more coming up at first, another COVID search, and
0:40.0	a new set of questions.
0:42.0	The COVID-19 pandemic has been one long excruciating lesson about humility, about being humble
0:50.0	in the face of changing circumstances, and a wily virus, about being open to new information,
0:56.4	new inputs, new approaches.
0:58.6	About accepting that experts sometimes get it wrong, and that leaders sometimes fail
1:03.3	to lead, and that journalists who strive for clarity sometimes stoke confusion.
1:10.4	Humility means recognizing different points of view.
1:14.1	Humility means being respectful of the trauma of the past two years.
1:29.6	The Washington National Cathedral told this funeral bell 800 times this week to honor
1:35.3	the 800,000 lives lost to COVID in the U.S., now that is a humbling death toll.
1:41.7	Everyone has lost something or someone to this pandemic.
1:46.5	Humility means recognizing that people mourn in different ways.
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