May 2, 2021: How 'political sectarianism' explains America's divides; the Giuliani scoop that wasn't; Bill Carter on late night changes

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🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Plus... One-on-one with New York Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury; Daniel Dale's data about Biden's first 100 days; the shifting tone of Covid coverage; and more. Eli J. Finkel, Daniel Dale, Nicole Hemmer, Oliver Darcy, Zeynep Tufekci, David Leonhardt, Kathleen Kingsbury and Bill Carter 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 Celter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine
0:08.4	the story behind the story and figure out what is Reliable these days.
0:13.7	This hour, we're talking about unmasking.
0:15.9	The changes in how COVID-19 is being covered and how interviewers are challenging President
0:20.2	Biden and members of his administration.
0:22.5	Plus, despite his legal trouble, Rudy Giuliani is celebrating a win against the Washington
0:27.2	Post this weekend.
0:28.4	We have all the details on that coming up, and later the new story of late night.
0:33.6	Bill Carter and how comedians are adapting to post-Trump life.
0:39.0	Plus, we have a lot of great guests coming up, Daniel Dale and Nicole Hemer both standing
0:44.2	by, and we have the first TV interview with Kathleen Kingsbury.
0:47.5	She's the top editor of the New York Times opinion pages, and she'll be here in a moment.
0:51.7	But first, let's talk about a better way to understand what's broken in American politics.
0:58.7	I was going to start today by walking through all the big and little lies of the week.
1:03.4	But the truth is, we only have an hour.
1:05.8	And repeating the garbage just makes everybody feel dirty.
1:09.6	So let's skip that.
1:11.1	No more burger BS.
1:12.8	Instead, let's ask, why?
1:15.8	Why are there so many non-stories?
1:18.3	So many nothing burger narratives being spread by right-wing anti-democrat media outlets?
1:23.3	Why were there so many false and misleading claims and video edits?
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