Hey, I'm Brian Seltzer, and this is a special edition of reliable sources, all focused on the election, which will be over in nine days.

This hour, do the long lines, the early voting lines mean we will have a shorter weight to hear who

wins on election night or is the opposite actually true? The AP's top editor is here with

answers. Plus a new look at the Murdoch's mirror machine and a divide

inside his newspapers about how to cover a key story. And later a road trip, come

with me to Pennsylvania, a place where the pandemic and

the election and the local news crisis are all converging, right when the public needs

reporting the most.

I'll show you why we were all outside for that interview, but first, what are people

hearing and reading as they decide when and how to vote? Clearly the biggest story of 2020,

despite President Trump's deep denialism is coronavirus.

It's a once in a century pandemic.

It's affected every person on the planet.

Trump is tired of COVID-19, but most Americans are still wide awake, paying attention.

He doesn't want to hear about it on TV anymore. He is lashing out of the press for keeping COVID

in the news, but the public is paying attention to the news.

Most of you want to know more, want to stay updated on how to stay safe.

A recent Pew survey found that four out of five Americans are following news about the virus closely.

So when Trump attacked CNN the other day for focusing on COVID,

when he called this dumb bastards,

that word dumb ricocheted right back at him.

Obviously no one wants COVID to be a top story.

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