Hey, here we are on Bryan Stelter Live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where

we examine the story behind the story, and we figure out what's Reliable.

This hour, one reporter's escape from Afghanistan, Leno Donald says she was threatened and abused

and forced to retract articles, which is going to join me live from a safe place in

just a few months.

Plus, wildfires, record temperatures, and as one front page says, a wake-up call about

the climate crisis.

But the media needs to do differently now.

And later, art tech giants sending up warning signs about a looming recession in the United

States.

We're going to crunch the numbers.

But first, let's say it, nay to the naysayers, the skeptics and cynics who said the January

6th hearings wouldn't matter, turns out they were very wrong.

The media personalities who said that no one would watch, that no one would care, they've

now seen otherwise.

And let's be honest, there was quite a bit of this prognosticating.

Some people thought that the summertime hearings would fizzle out over time, but they actually

picked up steam as June turned to July.

TV ratings stayed strong throughout the series.

It's weird to say it's a series, but it was a summer series of television, and it turned

out to be one of the highest rated shows of the summer.

So despite the mega-media types who claimed no one was watching, in fact, the hearings

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