March 8, 2020: Examining media coverage of coronavirus; Trump should 'lead, or get out of the way;' the importance of 'social distancing;' behind Joe Biden's comeback

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🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... How Bernie Sanders' critiques of the media differ from Trump's; one full year without a W.H. press secretary briefing; why the Trump campaign is suing CNN, the NYT, and WaPo. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Dr. Seema Yasmin, Kathleen Sebelius, TJ Ducklo, David Sirota, Errin Haines, Joe Lockhart and Sara Fischer 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 Seltzer. This is reliable sources. We are covering the story behind the story, so let's get right to it.
0:07.0	Aids from both the Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders campaigns will join me live.
0:11.0	Plus, why Chris Matthews suddenly stepped down from MS NBC and why
0:15.2	President Trump's campaign is suing several news outlets including CNN. Is this
0:20.3	a re-election strategy? Lots to get to, but first, lying and leadership breakdowns
0:26.0	when it comes to the coronavirus.
0:28.0	We are at a critical moment, with governments around the world
0:31.0	taking action and companies cancelling travel and cities
0:33.7	calling off big public gatherings. Every hour every day you can feel the spread of
0:38.7	the virus and the spread of the quarantine. The scope of story, frankly, it's hard to get your arms around.
0:45.9	That is a challenge for newsrooms like this one and many others. Right now we need clear-eyed
0:50.2	no-nonsense news coverage during this crisis.
0:53.0	Just consider where we are versus a week ago.
0:55.0	This time last Sunday, there were 89 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States.
1:00.0	Half of those were from the Diamond Princess Cruise ship.
1:02.8	Now there are at least 450, according to CNN's count.
1:06.7	This count's being updated constantly.
1:08.6	And the truth is, no one knows the exact or full number because of testing failures. That's why these kinds of headlines are
1:13.7	important to make clear about what's going on. Health officials are sounding alarms
1:18.0	because they don't have enough test kits. This story says the flawed rollout of tests
1:22.3	has snowballed into an embarrassing
1:24.0	fiasco of national proportions.
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