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

the story behind the story, and figure out what's reliable.

This hour, the Biden administration, can it build back local news better?

We're going to tell you about an important provision in that new bill, plus the growing

disconnect between the political press and the voters.

We're going to talk with an editor and author of a new book called Bad News, then mandates

conspiracies, what is stacking up at Newsmax?

What is going on at the far right cable channel?

We're going into that, plus a flashback to one year ago today.

Think about what happened one year ago today, and how it foreshadowed today's media divide.

But first, the difference between a slogan and a story.

Right now, it's invoked to say the Democrats have a messaging problem.

Maybe they do.

We probably do, but that's for candidates and strategists to figure out.

That's not the media's problem.

The media suffers from a different dilemma.

The slogan versus the story.

Slogans are simple, they are seductive.

Infrastructure week is a slogan, it's a cheeky one, and it became a punchline for years

and years.

But it's just a slogan.

The story is about what all the infrastructure money, what all the funding will do.

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