The media in 2020: How a stay-at-home year changed the news and entertainment landscape

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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CNN reporters Oliver Darcy, Donie O'Sullivan, Kerry Flynn, Frank Pallotta and Chloe Melas join Brian Stelter for a bird's-eye view of a strange and surprising 2020. They discuss some of the biggest storylines of the year, from disinformation to Disney+, and identify some bright spots in a generally dark year.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Reliable Sources Media Year and Review Podcast, Reviewing 2020. Can we find any good news about this gruesome year?
0:13.4	Well, we're gonna try.
0:15.4	So let's cue the music.
0:17.0	I'm Brian Stelter.
0:19.0	I'm the host of this weekly podcast,
0:21.3	our chance to go in depth with media leaders with newsmakers
0:25.1	talking about how the news gets made and this week as we try to do at the end of
0:32.2	every year we try to process what has happened
0:34.2	what has changed in the world of the big wide world of media including media
0:40.4	business and politics and culture and entertainment. We have five of CNN's best
0:46.0	standing by to process what's happened in the last 12 months. And of course so many of the
0:51.8	stories we are going to talk about relate to the pandemic.
0:55.6	The pandemic was like a black cloud in 2020.
1:00.2	Getting some of us sick, keeping us indoors, making us stay home, basically ruining everything.
1:06.9	Stealing people's time, stealing livelihoods, stealing lives.
1:13.8	We've seen as a result of the pandemic,
1:16.0	trends in business and media be exacerbated.
1:20.9	But I do think that we can find some good news out of this God-awful year.
1:26.0	So the first three reporters up with me to help me do that are Oliver Darcy, Donio Sullivan, and Carrie Flynn.
1:35.0	Welcome everybody to the podcast.
1:37.0	Hello.
1:38.0	Hey Brian, happy to be here.
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