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If you aren't curious about how a global pandemic started, willing to look into it and willing to talk to people who have different theories, you have not a single curious bone in your body, and you should really not be in journalism.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Molly Hemingway, our first guest on today's program.

Molly is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale, also a senior editor at the Federalist, a Fox News contributor, and more.

We talked at length with Molly about journalism today and her forth her forthcoming book, Rigged How the Media,

Big Tech, and the Democrats seized our elections. More on that in a little bit. Find her on

Twitter at MZ Hemingway. Molly, great to have you back. It is wonderful to be here with you.

I want to talk a little about journalism today and some recent stories.

There's a piece of a federalist will return to in a little bit.

It's important to be honest about what today's media actually are.

We'll return to that question in a moment.

But there's been just in the past two weeks or so,

so many stories that damage the credibility of our news media as if

that were still possible. The Brian Stelter interview on CNN with Jen Sacky, the White

House press secretary, is uniquely awful if people did not see this, and it's on CNN, so they

probably didn't. But the White House

Press Secretary comes on for an interview, Brian Stelter, reliable sources, CNN, media critic. The very

first question that he asks Jen Sacky is, what does the press get wrong when covering Biden's agenda?

When you watch the news, when you read the news, what do you think

we get wrong? It's usually a question you'd ask a boss. In this case, it's the White House press

secretary being asked this question, and it's something you could never imagine, ever imagine anyone

asking any of President Trump's press secretaries. What do we do wrong? How can we do a better job

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