May 24, 2020: Ben Smith on his scrutiny of Ronan Farrow's reporting; Dan Abrams on decision to publish column by Matt Lauer

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🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Plus... Garry Kasparov says Trump lowering the moral bar for us all; the significance of Trump's hostility toward VOA; The Atlantic's Ed Yong on America's 'patchwork pandemic'; NYT's Jennifer Senior: Trump doesn't believe what he can't see... Garry Kasparov, Ed Yong, Jennifer Senior, Ben Smith, Dan Abrams, Sunlen Serfaty and Matt Armstrong 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.
0:05.6	Our weekly look at the story behind the story.
0:08.6	We have a lot coming up this hour.
0:10.3	Looking at these pictures all across television of beaches and boardwalks and parks reopening on Memorial Day weekend
0:16.5	But do these images accurately show how the country is handling and coping with coronavirus?
0:22.0	We are going to get into that.
0:23.4	Plus, a story that has the media world buzzing, a New York Times column taking on Ronan
0:28.0	Pharaoh.
0:29.0	The Times columnist Ben Smith will be here to explain what he found, and later Media I found her Dan Abrams will be here to explain what he found and later media I found her Dan Abrams
0:34.5	will be here as well he's going to share why he decided to publish a new column by
0:38.8	Matt Lauer. Lauer went ahead and re-investigated some of the accusations against him.
0:44.8	All that and more coming up in the next few minutes, but let's begin by looking to the future.
0:50.2	What will historians say about this moment?
0:53.0	How will history books record this time?
0:57.6	Well, nobody knows for sure, but I think we've already seen
1:00.8	heroes emerge and also some villains in the midst of this pandemic.
1:05.6	This weekend the New York Times which likes to think of itself as the first rough draft of history
1:10.7	is trying to fight coronavirus fatigue and pay proper tribute to those we've lost.
1:15.0	Today's front page, you see it there, is a list of American COVID-19 victims,
1:20.0	and it goes on and on for three more pages.
1:24.0	Names and brief descriptions of a thousand lives lost.
1:27.5	And the total here, the thousand, is just 1% of the nearly 100,000 confirmed dead in America.
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