January 12, 2020: Twitter war turns into Twitter diplomacy; Bill Weld's view of campaign coverage; Harry and Meghan versus the British tabloids
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🗓️ 12 January 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey I'm Brian Stelter, it's time for reliable sources. |
| 0:05.0 | This is our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news |
| 0:09.1 | gets made, and how all of us can help make it better. This hour, our journalists missing the story that's happening all around us, |
| 0:16.4 | with deaths of despair rising in the US. Nick Christoph and Cheryl Wu Dunn are coming out |
| 0:21.6 | with this new book, Tight Rope. It's about the struggles of poor |
| 0:24.7 | people in the world's wealthiest country. They will join me for their first interview out |
| 0:28.7 | the book coming up in a few minutes. Plus what is it like to be a GOP primary candidate out there challenging |
| 0:35.1 | President Trump is Governor Bill Well getting a fair shake. He's going to join me |
| 0:39.1 | live in just a few minutes as well, plus the media storm brewing around Buckingham Palace, how the British |
| 0:44.8 | tabloids perhaps pushed Prince Harry and Megan Markle away from their royal |
| 0:49.6 | duties. All that in much more in a few moments, but picking up on where freed left off our top story right now, |
| 0:56.0 | President Trump supporting press freedom, not in the United States, but in Iran. |
| 1:01.0 | The President weighing in on Twitter about the protests that have erupted in |
| 1:04.7 | Iran in recent hours. He's tweeting this among other things. He says, turn your |
| 1:09.2 | internet back on in Iran. Let reporters roam free. He's urging the leaders of Iran not to take action, not to kill |
| 1:16.7 | and arrest the protesters that have taken to the streets. All these protests have been in response |
| 1:21.8 | to Iran admitting to the accidental |
| 1:25.1 | shoot down of the Ukrainian flight 752. Of course Iran denied for days and |
| 1:31.0 | days that it was responsible for the crash and then finally admitted |
| 1:35.1 | it fest up under pressure. |
| 1:36.6 | Looks like a look at the newspapers in Iran today. These are Sundays front pages, many |
| 1:41.8 | of them in shades of black, trying to hold the government |
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