Hey, I'm Brian Stelter, and this is Reliable Sources.

Our weekly look at the story behind the story.

If how the media really works, how the news gets made,

and how all of us can help make it better.

This hour, a legend is retiring from 60 minutes.

Steve Croft will join me to talk about CBS, politics, and why he's stepping down.

Plus, Biden and Trump, how these two men are covered. It's very different depending on what channel you're watching,

and I'm going to show you. Later, a very unfortunate milestone. We're going to surprise you.

It's something that's been missing for the past six months. The first a reality check here.

To understand why the president is posting cat videos,

actually celebrating his own ignorance about Alabama and Hurricane Dorian,

we have to go back to the beginning of the week

when the president gave away a key line

from his re-election playbook.

He said here, our real opponent is not the Democrats.

It's the fake news media. Everything comes back to that.

We're going to be talking about this every week until the 2020 election, and it is exhausting.

It's exhausting the way Trump smears the press day in and day out.

But it's obvious why he does it. It is key to his re-election campaign.

The less you believe real reporting, the more you might fall for his unreality. so that when he says 2 plus 2 is 5

you'll believe him. Now 2 plus 2 is 5 that's of course a reference to

George Orwell's 1984. It's a book that came to mind this week as Trump tried to convince people that his faulty

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