September 6, 2020: The Atlantic's top editor answers Trump's attacks; local TV's political disinfo problem; Carl Bernstein on the use of anonymous sources in reporting
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🗓️ 6 September 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Plus... This is why political campaigns feel free to lie in TV ads; a Facebook exec explains the company's US election actions; what's next for Stars and Stripes? Jeffrey Goldberg, S.V. Date, SE Cupp, Nick Clegg, Nicole Hemmer, Carl Bernstein and Ernie Gates join Brian Stelter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey I'm Brian Stelter and this is Reliable Sources, our weekly look at the story behind the story. |
| 0:07.0 | This hour, three big stories you will not see anywhere else. |
| 0:10.0 | The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg is here. |
| 0:12.0 | So is Carl Bernstein, and so is Nick Clegg, one of the top executives at Facebook. |
| 0:17.0 | In many ways, this coming election is the Facebook election. |
| 0:20.3 | We're going to ask Clegg about the company's plans. |
| 0:22.3 | And later, it is not just Facebook that lets political ads lie. |
| 0:26.0 | So do local TV stations, and it's because of government policy. |
| 0:30.0 | I will show you why in just a few minutes. But first this question, what do the people |
| 0:37.2 | closest to President Trump know about his conduct and his misconduct. |
| 0:43.1 | Why do so many of them remain silent while he remains so loud? |
| 0:48.1 | What do America's four-star generals know? |
| 0:50.8 | What do the retire generals know? Hey, what do Trump's friends like Sean |
| 0:54.4 | Hannity know? What do they know about his fitness? What do they say in private? |
| 0:59.4 | And why won't they tell the rest of us? |
| 1:02.6 | Jeffrey Goldberg's story for the Atlantic brings these questions back to the forefront. |
| 1:07.3 | Trump said Americans who die in war are losers and suckers. |
| 1:11.0 | Now that's the headline. |
| 1:12.2 | The story is even worse. It's up on the Atlantic.com. |
| 1:16.6 | Trump world of course denounced the story and many other news outlets focused their follow-ups |
| 1:20.8 | on Trump's denials. You see all those headlines, they led with the denials. Why? |
| 1:27.0 | Well it's easy to do. It's kind of an automatic thing to do in journalism. But why confer credibility where it doesn't belong? |
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