Hey, I'm Brian Salter, live in Providence, Rhode Island today, and this is reliable sources

where we examine the story behind the story and figure out what is reliable.

This hour, the pandemic Olympics brought to the U.S. by NBC will the network sink or swim

in its coverage.

Also the connection between narcissism and election lies.

We have brand new audio from a former president that you need to hear to believe.

And later, a really important new book.

It's about the landslide of reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein case and the quote, perversion

of justice.

The woman behind it all, Julie K. Brown.

She joins me live in just a few minutes.

But first, risk, reward, and the rhetoric around COVID-19.

If you think about it, life is just one big, long set of calculated risks.

In the streets of the park, driving the car to the store, boarding a plane for a trip.

We all take some risks every day, and if we didn't, we wouldn't be living.

The COVID-19 pandemic is all about risk.

It's all about how risky is it, how much of the vaccines reduce the risk, how much risk

is acceptable to you, what's your risk tolerance, what about the risk of passing the virus

on to others, what's the cost-benefit analysis.

COVID requires constant risk assessments.

But those nuances don't always come through in the media coverage, and I would argue

that the public health officials that we've all come to know over the past 18 months have

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