May 9, 2021: How 'Foxitis' is hurting America's pandemic response; Bezos biographer Brad Stone on covering the world's richest man

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🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Plus... How Covid-19 coverage is shifting across the media landscape; meet two Tribune reporters who are issuing last-hour pleas for local ownership; can pro-Trump media outlets change the way we remember the Capitol riot? David Zurawik, Amanda Marcotte, Susan Glasser, Dan P. McAdams, Devlin Barrett, Brad Stone, Liz Bowie and Larry McShane 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.
0:05.7	Happy Mother's Day to my mom and all the moms tuning in today.
0:09.7	On this program, we examine the story behind the story.
0:12.4	You try to figure out what is reliable.
0:15.2	Well, this hour, the Washington Post's revelation, just how far did Trump appointees go to
0:20.4	catch leakers?
0:21.4	I'll speak with a reporter who broke that news.
0:24.4	Plus, pro Trump media outlets trying to stuff the January 6 riot right down the memory
0:29.2	hole.
0:30.2	But how does memory work exactly?
0:32.2	A leading expert in the field will tell us what to remember coming up.
0:36.2	And later, reporters from two Tribune newspapers are trying to find buyers for their publications.
0:41.7	We're going to talk about why, what's going on in just a few minutes.
0:46.2	Brad Stone is also here for the first interview about his new book about Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
0:51.4	But first, is the USA suffering from a bad case of Foxitis?
0:57.6	And is it hurting America's pandemic recovery?
1:01.3	That word, Foxitis, it was coined by a lawyer defending one of the suspects in the pro Trump
1:06.1	riot.
1:07.1	It's almost a Fox News made me do it, kind of defense.
1:10.3	Fox Mania, the lawyer, said.
1:12.4	He said his client lost his job due to the pandemic and then watched Fox constantly for
1:17.2	the next six months, quote, he believed what was being fed to him.
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