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Reliable Sources

November 14, 2021: Steve Bannon becomes right-wing media's new martyr; the role of documentaries in the Britney Spears case; as inflation fears rise, is the news coverage falling short?

Reliable Sources

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Plus: A new report offers solutions to 'information disorder;" Brian Williams' departure highlights a talent problem at MSNBC; MyPillow CEO's media empire shows the depth and breadth of the Big Lie delusion; and more. Catherine Rampell, Eric Deggans, Zachary Petrizzo, Rashad Robinson, Abigail Tracy, Art Cullen, and Beth Levison 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brian Celter live in New York and this is Reliable Sources where we examine

0:06.6

the story behind the story and try to figure out what's reliable these days.

0:10.7

I had this hour, the very first look at a new report on the disinformation crisis in

0:15.2

America with some specific recommendations about what to do.

0:19.2

Plus, Brian Williams walking away from MSNBC, what does this move reveal about the cable

0:24.2

news network?

0:25.5

And later, the big news coming from a small town newspaper in Iowa.

0:30.2

Here it is, why it could be a model for the world.

0:33.4

Plus, another coup memo has just been revealed.

0:37.3

We'll have that coming up as well, but first, it's Steve Bannon versus reality.

0:43.0

Bannon, the former Breitbart Chief and Trump aid, is a nexus of political nonsense.

0:48.0

He thinks he's waging a war on elites when he's really waging a war on truth.

0:52.6

As Daniel Dale put it recently, Bannon's popular podcast is a dangerous fantasy land of

0:57.8

election lies.

0:59.9

But that's not why Bannon has been indicted by a grand jury.

1:03.2

He's been indicted for ignoring a congressional subpoena, a subpoena in connection to the

1:07.2

January 6th investigation.

1:09.8

Most Americans want to get to the bottom of what happened that day, but the Trump base

1:13.8

does not.

1:14.8

Ergo, Bannon flouted the House's attempts to question him.

1:18.0

He kept on podcasting while the indictment news broke.

1:21.1

Now he is well on his way to right wing martyr status.

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