What Woodward's book says about Trump's fitness; Bernstein on why Woodward's 'Fear' is different; Why should readers trust anonymous info?; Should NYT have published an unnamed op-ed?; Reports: Trump 'grousing' about Bill Shine; Reuters reporters facing 7
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3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How to Cover Crazy Town, I'm Brian Stelter and this is reliable sources. |
| 0:06.6 | Our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made, |
| 0:12.0 | and how all of us can make it better. |
| 0:14.4 | This hour, that incredible New York Times op-ed, its most read article of the year, why journalists |
| 0:20.0 | are asking the wrong question about the op-ed. |
| 0:23.0 | Plus, disturbing developments from Myanmar, |
| 0:26.0 | where two Reuters journalists have been sentenced to seven years in prison. |
| 0:30.0 | Reuters top editor will join me live. |
| 0:32.0 | And later, why I think it's time to stop using |
| 0:34.8 | terms like active shooter. The first breaking news from fire and fury to fear |
| 0:40.4 | President Trump frantically hunting for the administration officials who say he's a threat |
| 0:45.7 | to the country. |
| 0:47.4 | Many of these claims are coming in Bob Woodward's new book, titled Fear. |
| 0:50.9 | It is already one of the years bestsellers and it's not even on sale yet. |
| 0:56.1 | The moment these excerpts came out from the Washington Post and CNN on Tuesday, the book |
| 1:00.7 | soared to number one on Amazon and it has been there ever since. |
| 1:05.0 | This book is not budging from the top of the list. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean solely based on pre-orders, it's the sixth biggest book of the year on Amazon |
| 1:12.0 | with nearly a million copies |
| 1:14.1 | total printed already and it'll actually be released to the public on Tuesday. |
| 1:19.2 | Here's the thing about Trump's reaction to the book by raging against Woodward and |
| 1:25.2 | claiming he might have made up stories and lying about Woodward's reputation. |
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