Hey, I'm Brian Stelter live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources.

Our wiggle look at the story behind the story, the media news you need to know.

This hour, the story behind Roger Stone's commutation, which TV and radio hosts pushed

Trump to do it.

Plus, covering the summer spike in COVID-19 cases. One of the world's top infectious disease

reporters will join me live in just a few minutes. And later something that affects

all of us. A new look at where newspapers are disappearing across America.

Margaret Sullivan will be here talking about how the coronavirus is compounding the

local news crisis.

But first, a CNN exclusive about the top writer on the top show in cable news.

For several days, CNN's Oliver Darcy has been investigating a tip about Blake Neff. Neff is a writer for Tucker Carlson tonight.

At least he was until Friday when he resigned. Darcy confirmed that Neff for years

used a pseudonym to post bigoted sexist remarks on an online forum.

That forum, by the way, is a hotbed for racism, sexism, and other offensive content.

You can read Darcy's full story up on CNN.com right now.

He has all the frankly gruesome details about what Neff was posting and who he was interacting with and why it matters

Because that's what we're going to get into today. Yes, Neff has resigned. It's been an embarrassment for Fox News

But it matters because Tucker Carlson tonight is a hugely highly rated

show with a pipeline right to the presidency.

Now on Saturday afternoon, after Darcy's story was published, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace

condemned Neff in this memo saying his abhorrent conduct on the forum was never divulged

to the show or the network until Friday, at which point we swiftly accepted

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