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Reliable Sources

March 7, 2021: All roads lead to the Murdochs; royal correspondent defends negative Meghan Markle coverage; Iowa reporter faces trial after covering BLM protest

Reliable Sources

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Plus... How the GOP takes its "cancel culture" cues from Fox; NYT columnist criticized for conflict of interest; the ups and downs of broadcasting from home during the pandemic. Diane Falzone, Sarah Ellison, Oliver Darcy, Maribel Perez Wadsworth, Richard Palmer and Kristin Meinzer 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, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine

0:07.9

the story behind the story and try to figure out what is Reliable these days.

0:13.2

This hour, the chilling prosecution of a local journalist on American soil, a top news

0:17.9

executive is here to call attention to the trial.

0:20.6

Plus, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, like you've never seen him before, were taking you behind the

0:24.7

scenes of pandemic-era TV news.

0:27.8

And later, the British press, look at these front pages, versus Harry and Megan.

0:32.3

See how their impending interview is being covered in the US, versus the UK.

0:36.9

But up first, media royalty.

0:39.2

And Lockwood Murdoch's comment that raised a lot of eyebrows this week.

0:43.4

In news, in politics, in pop culture, all roads lead back to the Murdoch's.

0:48.0

But rarely does anyone take a step back and make the necessary connections involving

0:52.4

this media empire.

0:54.1

Maybe that's because the two men are actually rarely heard from.

0:57.9

Father Rupert presides over all the Murdoch Empire's media assets from the Wall Street Journal

1:02.7

to the Sun, to Fox News, etc.

1:05.6

One of his sons, Lockwood, runs Fox Corporation.

1:08.4

That is the company that actually oversees Fox News.

1:11.9

So they wield enormous power.

1:14.7

But they almost never talk about it in public.

1:16.8

They never come face-to-face with any form of accountability.

1:20.1

They stay behind the scenes, and maybe that's by design.

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