Tucker takes vacation after white supremacy 'hoax' remark; "cancel culture" comes for the New York Times; headlines fall short of highlighting El Paso victims; CNN obtains draft order for FCC to police social media; reporter who reopened Epstein investiga
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It's time for reliable sources. Our weekly look at the story behind the story, |
| 0:07.0 | how the media really works, how the news gets made and how all of us can help make it better. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm John Avalon in for Brian Stelter and let's start with a |
| 0:14.1 | brand new story. That would be Story Moon Stelter because on Wednesday |
| 0:18.2 | Brian and Jamie and Big Sister Sunny welcome to a new baby boy to the family. |
| 0:22.5 | So please join us all in saying, |
| 0:24.0 | welcome to the world, stunning moon's delta. |
| 0:27.0 | And now on to this week's news. |
| 0:29.0 | This hour, is the news media ignoring Latinos |
| 0:32.0 | in the coverage of the El Paso terror attack? |
| 0:34.0 | Also, why these before and after headlines from the New York Times cause such an uproar and what |
| 0:38.6 | it says about the debate about how to cover President Trump? |
| 0:41.8 | Finally, we'll talk to the reporter whose investigation reopened the Epstein case |
| 0:45.6 | about the questions that still demand answers. |
| 0:48.2 | But first, you hear that? |
| 0:50.8 | That's deafening silence from Fox News and its board of directors following Tucker Carlson's false claim that the white supremacy problem in America is a hoax. |
| 0:59.0 | Now that's on the very same week that El Paso suffered an act of white nationalist terror. |
| 1:03.9 | Now here's a fact. |
| 1:05.3 | Since 9-11 there have been more murders by right-wing extremists in America than |
| 1:09.6 | Islamist terrorists, that's according to New America's research. |
| 1:12.7 | And if you judge a comment by the company it keeps, Tucker's message was praised by none other |
| 1:16.7 | than former KKK leader David Duke. |
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