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Reliable Sources

March 22, 2020: Dan Rather and Carl Bernstein on leadership in crisis; AT&T CEO on keeping America connected during the coronavirus shutdown; three top editors on the state of the news business

Reliable Sources

CNN

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Plus... Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos on Hollywood's production halt; Julie Roginsky and Max Boot on Fox's U-turn; and much more. Jeffrey Goldberg, Sally Buzbee, Matt Murray, Dan Rather, Carl Bernstein, Julie Roginsky, Max Boot, Ted Sarandos and Randall Stephenson join Brian Stelter.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. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world.

0:06.0

This is Reliable Sources from an empty studio here in New York City because we've asked all of our guests to join from home this hour.

0:14.1

Here in reliable sources, looking at the media angles here.

0:17.2

Every corner of the media industry has been touched by this pandemic, and telecom companies

0:22.0

and tech companies like AT&T are working in a

0:25.2

critical way to keep the internet up and running, literally keeping people

0:28.8

connected when we are all so isolated. We are also seeing streaming services of course being used quite a bit we're

0:34.8

going to talk about all of that in the next few minutes here standing by for me

0:38.3

is Netflix chief content officer Ted Surrandos one of the most powerful main executives in the world.

0:44.2

He's going to talk with me in a moment about what Netflix is doing.

0:46.8

But first, let me bring in Chairman and CEO of AT&T, Randall Stevenson.

0:51.0

AT&T is the owner of this network, CNN.

0:53.9

Randall, thank you for being here.

0:55.0

I'm curious about what has changed for you and for AT&T in the past couple of weeks.

1:00.6

How have you had to change AT&T's priorities? Hi Brian. of

1:05.0

a couple of weeks. How have you had to change AT&T's priorities?

1:06.0

It's kind of unusual to face a national crisis

1:10.0

and ask our employees to go home,

1:12.0

but that's effectively what we've done.

1:14.2

We've told our employees to the extent that you can do your work at home,

1:18.2

go home.

1:18.7

We have 90,000 people who are now doing their job from home. We have a number of people about 20,000

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