Hey happy 2022 let's make this a great year. I'm Brian Stelter and this is Reliable

Sources where we examine the story behind the story and we figure out what is Reliable.

This hour new year's resolutions for the news business and how you can be a part of

them. Plus the disinformation economy and how some experts are trying to disrupt it David

from us here with insights and later Kara Swisher is here. She's talking about what's

coming down the pipe from the tech platforms, from the streaming wars to the metaverse.

All of that and more in the hour ahead. The first, the new year brings an anniversary that

someone to forget that some are actively denying and that others are determined to remember.

The one year anniversary of the Trump riots is coming up on Thursday. In the words of CNN

analyst Steve Vladik, there are still a stunningly large number of people who don't appreciate

how close we came to a cataclysmic constitutional and democratic crisis on January 6th. Or he

said how alarming it is that a number of states are trying to make such a coup that much

easier to pull off next time. Yes, the story of January 6th just keeps getting bigger

and bigger. Even though it keeps shrinking and shrinking at pro-Trump media outlets, their

line started right away, the minimizing, the denying, the blame shifting. And their

fictions have made it harder to stay focused on the facts. So we're going to devote a

good amount of time this morning to the facts, to remembering, to the role of the media

and to making sense of the aftermath. One six is part of an anti-democratic movement in

the U.S. But only part. As political reporter Kyle Cheney observed recently, there is a

five alarm fire happening in real time. But far from ignoring it, the political press has

covered it with urgency. The facts we are uncovering are alarming and deserve focus and prioritization

by reporters covering our small D democratic government. This is, as he said, one of the defining

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