Hey, I'm Brian Stelter. It's time for reliable sources. This is our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made, now all of us can help make it better. In this hour we have breaking news from Alabama

where the state's biggest newspapers are making a pretty bold statement about the

state's new extreme anti-abortion bill. Later we're going to get into the truth

about President Trump's wealth and how business beat reporters

are leading the way.

Plus, we are keeping track of the administration's briefing room silence, 69 days.

Why is it the Gene Simmons is the only one standing at the Pentagon

podium? Joe Lockhart's here to talk about that. But first the new abnormal and

that's involving the T word, treason.

The president is continuing to accuse members of the intelligence community of treason,

an idea that only makes sense if you subscribe to the Sean Hannity cinematic universe.

On Friday, Trump tweeted out this conclusive claim that his campaign was spied on and he said

this was treason. He apparently liked the idea so much that he retweeted it, retweeting himself on Saturday.

So why am I bringing it up now?

Because the news media mostly just sighed, shrugged, and moved on.

It turns out even cries of treason are not enough to spark big breaking news coverage anymore.

Now, that may be a good thing, or that may be a bad thing.

What do you think?

Even on Fox, Laura Ingram barely took this idea seriously.

Treason means long jail sentences and this was treason.

Harm me, we're almost at a time, but treason?

Yes or no.

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