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🗓️ 17 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Gessen argues that news outlets should not amplify "ridiculous messages" from Russian authorities. Plus: Scott McLean reports from Estonia; Jessica Toonkel and Clare Duffy discuss what Elon Musk and Twitter might do next; and Lynn Sweet dissects why President Biden is granting so few interviews and why the RNC is opposing the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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0:00.0 | Hey happy Easter and Passover to you and yours on Bryan Stelter and this is Reliable |
0:08.2 | Sources where we examine the story behind the story and we figure out what's reliable. |
0:13.6 | This hour an interview that took my breath away, American journalist Danny Fenster who spent |
0:18.4 | six months in a Myanmar prison now speaking out revealing what kept him going all that |
0:23.4 | time. |
0:24.4 | Plus a whole new meaning to the term tweedstorm, what to expect from Elon Musk this week |
0:29.3 | as he tweets his way through a hostile takeover of Twitter. |
0:32.9 | And later political fear factor? |
0:35.5 | Why are Republicans breaking away from the bipartisan presidential debate commission? |
0:40.0 | We haven't even made it to the midterms yet. |
0:42.1 | We're going to get into all that and more, but first there are big holes in the story |
0:46.4 | about the Mosqueva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, a warship that now rests |
0:51.9 | at the bottom of the sea. |
0:53.8 | It's described as the biggest wartime loss of a naval ship in 40 years, but there's very |
0:58.6 | little vetted information about what happened. |
1:02.0 | There were no reporters, no witnesses when the ship began to sink. |
1:06.0 | So what we're left with are dueling storylines with Ukraine claiming to have hit it with anti-ship |
1:11.5 | and missiles and Russia trying to say otherwise claiming a fire broke out on board the warship. |
1:16.8 | That's what caused diminishings to explode, that's what damaged the vessel and forced |
1:20.6 | the crew to evacuate. |
1:22.5 | A more complicated story, right? |
1:24.7 | There's no way for news outlets to truly get to the bottom of it, but consider this. |
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