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Reliable Sources

May 23, 2021: How to cover a radicalized Republican party; four stories in the news about CNN; a narrative shift in American politics?

Reliable Sources

CNN

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... Biden breaks from Trump and Obama on leak probes; Tribune's sale and the fragile future of local news; Chicago mayor sparks debate over diversity and media access; social media guidelines gone awry at the AP? Claire Atkinson, Nicole Hemmer, Perry Bacon Jr., Edward-Isaac Dovere, Gregory Pratt, Max Foster and John Ware 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 Salter live in New York and this is Reliable Sources.

0:08.0

Here we examine the story behind this story and figure out what is Reliable these days.

0:13.6

This hour interesting story out at Chicago where the mayor has been stirring debate by using

0:18.6

diversity to pick and choose who can interview her.

0:22.0

We're going to speak with a reporter who gained access but chose to reject it.

0:26.4

Plus, scandal of the Associated Press this weekend.

0:29.4

A new reporter, a new employee, let go.

0:32.3

Is it because of her pro-Palestinian tweets?

0:35.3

We're going to get into social media policies and newsrooms and what went wrong here.

0:38.9

Plus, Martin Bashir's career making interview with Princess Diana.

0:42.3

Now, deemed deceptive by the BBC.

0:45.6

Their lead reporter who's re-reported this story is going to join me in the next few minutes.

0:52.8

But first, four stories about this network, CNN, including Chris Cuomo's apology and

0:59.6

Rick Santorum's departure.

1:01.8

We're going to get into all of it.

1:03.3

So let's start with the subpoenaing, the seizing of Pentagon correspondent Barbara

1:07.3

Starr's records.

1:09.5

Every week we are learning more about what the Trump-era Justice Department did, more

1:13.6

about its practices, more about its secret seizures of reporter phone records.

1:18.6

First, the Washington Post was notified that phone records for three of its reporters

1:22.4

were subpoenaed by Trump's DOJ.

1:25.0

And now we know it also happened to CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, her phone and

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