You always see on the screen. Just in the past half hour, the 5 million mark has been passed. Lets remember, when we say 5 million cases, every single case, every single number, is a person with a family, with a friend set, with a group of people that are affected by this virus. The exact number, according to Johns Hopkins right now, 5,600,003 confirmed cases. We know the true number is higher because of embarrassing testing failures in the united states. Meanwhile, President Trump keeps saying covid19 is, quote unquote, disappearing. He said it at his golf club the other day. He said the virus is disappearing. He should tell that to the tens of thousands of americans who just got sick yesterday. Now, thats our entry points for this weeks reliable sources. This hour were going inside a florida newsroom thats on a mission to honor every life lost to covid19 in that state. Plus, well look at why the president s response to the virus is being likened to a potemkin village, a fake facade. And hilary rosen is here calling out troeps in the News Coverage. And well see what a mainly fee mral band of reporters forced the. The to face facts. Jeffrey toobin and others are standing by. But first, lets go on a trip together to a totally alternative universe. You never hear whats happening there unless you tune into rightwing talk radio, but you need to know what they are saying because the most popular, most powerful talkers in the country have trained their sights on joe biden. What you are about to hear them say is mindboggling. Look, whether you like biden or not, this stuff is offensive and otherworldly. So, let me set the stage for this before i play the clips. Keep in mind that news and talk radio is still really popular, even in the internet age. Guys like Rush Limbaugh and sean hannity can influences tens of millions of listeners. As this huff post headline they were downplaying the coronaviruss severity. Now adays, if you listen to those shows, you hardly hear about covid at all. They have shifted to bigtime biden bashing instead. You know what this is . This is negative partisanship in action. So, whats negative partisanship . These researchers from Emory University define it as a Pretty Simple content. They say in this article for Politico Magazine that over the past few decades american politics has become like a bitter sports rivalry in which the parties hang together mainly out of sheer hatred of the other team rather than a shared sense of purpose. The researchers showed that partisans, meaning strong supporters of a specific party, have grown to dislike the opposing party, quote, more than they like their own party. So, when the president , for example, says that biden is against god, thats negative partisanship. It is so hateful. But i want to be clear, theres a lot of negative partisanship that happens on the left as well. Disdain and nastiness directed at the right. This is happening in all directions, but it is especially extreme, especially vitriolic on the right, directed at joe biden. And directed at other democrats right now. We see it all the time on fox news, a channel that often seems more antidemocrat than protrump. These shows are the protrump media, but they have so much venom towards the democrat, they use that. Some commentary on the radio is even worse. Thats why this week our producing team listened to these rightwing radio shows, took them seriously, tried to get a sense of what they are saying about biden because theyre barely talking about covid anymore. Theyre all focused on biden. This stuff is outrageous, but it does impact the campaign. So, listen the contrast and knowledge of events and issues, mental acuity, the contrast between trump and biden is striking. Its why theyre keeping biden in the basement. I actually dont believe joe biden is working out of his house. I believe hes working out of a nursing home or an assisted living home, because thats what he needs. The big problem for joe biden is he is falling apart. Hes just falling apart. Hes not really running for the office. Its the communist that he picks as his number two who will be running america within three months after he gets sent to the long, long rest he has worked for all of his life. You know, a blanket over his hips, around the clock suites, around the clock care. The man needs the care right now. I pity the man. My physical as well as my mental every day, every day this is whats airing on the radio. Theres Michael Savage saying, i pity the man. Theres morning levin saying, i think bidens in a nursing home. What the heck is going on on these programs. Look at what fox news saw on saturday at a rohoboth beach, delaware. This is joe biden out there on a vigorous bike ride. Not wearing a helmet but definitely wearing a mask, by the way. Foxs narrative and talk radios narrative for months has been that joe biden is falling apart. You just heard him say it, falling apart. There he is riding a bike, out for a bike ride. Fox, of all networks, is the one that showed it happen. Look, we are going to see negative partisanship fuel the next three months. The last three months of this neverending campaign. It is a key part of what is going on. Is a potion thats onlygetting worse. Lets talk more about it with david zurawik, the Baltimore Sun media critic, along with Columbia University scholar Nicole Hemmer, author of messages of right and with us is errin haines, editoratlarge, the brandnew website covering the intersection of gender and politics. Nicole, first to you, negative partisanship, it kind of explains everything about what is broken in our media environment because theres all of these media outlet, all of these radio stars constantly attacking, fueling hatred of the other side. Am i right to say this happens on the left and the right but its more severe on the right currently . Yes. I would say its more severe on the right currently. In part because the right just has a longer tradition of these overtly ideological media outlets. There is this sort of habit of attacking democrats that goes pretty far back. If you look at like the 1990s and the way that Rush Limbaugh and others sort of sharpened their teeth on bill clinton, this is the way they built audiences for these decades now. I dont want to claim its new, but its getting worse, more severe. Errin, your view of this, when you see entire Media Companies essentially exist to tear down joe biden, is there an equivalent of that on the left, tearing down trump . There really isnt. What i would say is its really a diet of this type of information that a lot of these voters are getting. A lot of the voters i talk to, i can when i interview them, i do hear them saying a lot of the talking points that sound very familiar from some of these shows that i try to listen to when im out on the campaign trail or when im home, watching tv. You can hear these comments being echoed by voters. You know that this is the diet theyre on, you know, a. M. Radio, conservative talk, also social media. The Trump Campaign is running a fullblown campaign on social media that is off the radar for a lot of regular media is not covering this, but you have the campaign is running, you know, kind of a parallel campaign online. And if thats all theyre getting, you know, to the exclusion of kind of the more traditional legacy media, you know, then it really is no surprise kind of what their understanding is of this country and of our politics. Such an important point though. What the Trump Campaign is doing on facebook and these web video series, they have a right wing view, they have other shows that constantly reiterate the talking points. David zurawik, lets listen to more of these radio comments. I dont think these crazy rightwing comments about biden break through to the rest of the regular media often enough. My physical as well as my Mental Fitness at least get new dentures, for gods sake. Joe biden is just mentally inept. He is he cant string sentences together anymore. He sounds like he sounds like a normal person after theyve had a bunch of ambien. An invalid, and thats what joe biden is. Hes an invalid. Im not here to claim joe biden is perfect. He screwed up a couple of times with journalists earlier this week. I am here to say, joe biden is not an invalid. Even fox carries his speeches live. So, is it, david, theyre just setting the bar so low that its going to be easier for joe biden to climb over it . Brian, you know, whats happening here is this is interesting to me. We talked about the two parallels, social media and talk radio. And the interesting thing is, trump is trumps messaging machine is getting squeezed a little bit on social media. Tweets are well, tweets are being marked as warning. Weve put attention on it. Facebook is taking stuff down. Twitter is taking stuff down. Hes being watched in a way he wasnt in 2016. True. The irony is we have a federal Communications Commission thats supposed to monitor, supposed to watch talk radio and yet they can get away with all of this on talk radio. Not just because we in the Mainstream Media dont pay enough attention to it, and its true, we dont, but its because the regulators dont Pay Attention to it. It is so far out there now that its frightening. And it wasnt always that way. Just as conservativism has been debased by trump in the era of trump, so has rightwing talk radio. There used to be legitimate conservatives on radio who were honorable men. We had one in baltimore, ron smith, who was beloved in baltimore, which is a very liberal city. Oh, yeah. And he had an audience of 120,000, but he was a man of honor. He lost 40 of his audience when he won defense the iragainst th 2003. Dont have that against trump. Its a key part we have to watch in this 2020 campaign of his messaging machine. The biden bash is going to go on for three more months. Nicole, to the extent these talk show hosts do talk about the coronavirus, how would you describe the coverage of the coronavirus from rightwing talk radio . Is it mostly con spirpcy theorizing . What is it . Its a couple of different things. First, its this notion that the virus isnt as bad as people are saying it is. That very quickly leads into this idea that democrats and the liberal media are conspireing together to make the virus look worse than it actually is so they can take your freedoms and seize power. So, thats sort of channelling the pandemic back into the normal flows of conservative talk radio because that theme that democrats in the media working together to take away your freedoms is kind of a backbone of conservative talk radio. Its a kind of return to the main line of argument through the pandemic. So, conspiracies, yes, but conspiracies here. A reality check about the alternative reality from everybody. Thank you. Stick around, everybody. I want to talk about why these facial expressions may be a defining moment of the campaign cycle. Plus, how to right our wrongs. The medias challenge in the coming days as we cover joe bidens Vice President ial pick. Water . Why . ahhhh incoming ahhhahh im saved ahhh ride . No, im good. Im gonna walk. Lets go water tastes like, well, water. So we fixed it. Mio heres another cleaning tip from mr. Clean. Cleaning tough bathroom and kitchen messes with sprays and wipes can be a struggle. Theres an easier way. Try mr. Clean magic eraser. 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Helping you buy better. Its like walking into the Chocolate Factory and you won a golden ticket. All of these are face masks. This looks like a bottle of vodka. But when we first got these, we were like whoa [laughing] my threeyearold, when we get a box delivered, screams mommys work mommys work. With this pandemic, safety is even more important to make sure we go home safe every single day. A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today with joe biden set to name his Vice President ial pick in the coming days, a group of Democratic Women leaders wants everyone to know that, quote, we have her back. In an open letter to top newspaper and Network Executives this week, the organizers wrote this, they said, we believe it is your job to not just Pay Attention to stereotypes but to actively work to be antiracist and antisexist in your coverage. Democratic strategist and cnn contributor hilary rosen is one of the organizers of we have her back. Shes with me now. And errin haines is back as well. Errin has been covering the veep stakes. Hilary, what mistakes, what stereotypes have come through in the News Coverage that you are trying to challenge and counter . Well, first, you know, we thought it was important to get this message out before a specific person was named so that it would be more generic, as errin knows. In this runup to this pick weve seen so many disappointing things whether it was a kind of mocking of Kamala Harris ambiti ambitio ambition. Just this week a story in the l. A. Times saying the vp pick compared to the bachelor saying each pick will get a rose. Whether or not candidates are likeable. There were so many examples that kind of nauseated us. We thought, the media really did something significant, in my view, after the George Floyd Killing and the Racial Justice protests. You know, we really saw an examination internally in newsrooms about, you know, the systemic racism, the stereotypes, do we have, you know, people of color covering these issues, are black people involved in the decisions. And what were saying is, you ought to have the same kind of thinking around covering a woman because we havent seen it before. In fact, the last time we saw it in 2016 was awful. And so lets use that learning that people took seriously, that you reported on regularly, brian, use that learning to make a difference now. Sarah palin was also subjected to sexual tropes in 2008 and geraldine ferreira saying, in my case, meet the press asked me if i was Strong Enough to push the button. These were questions they never asked men. In 1998 i couldnt say stop it because i couldnt look like i was whining or upset about it. Has the world changed or can women not stand up to it because theyll be accused of whining . Well, they were accused of whining as we saw the pem with em in the president ial campaign. Thats why organizations like times up and super majority and planned parenthood, thats why those of us on the outside have to have her back because she cant say things. Even the campaign cant say things because it equates to joe biden whining. Those on the outside and you in the news media have to Pay Attention to in a way candidates cant afford to. I still cant believe were showing this in 2020 when were showing video from 1984 with a female Vice President ial pick and were talking about 2020 about whether well have a Vice President as a woman, not to mention a woman president. It pisses me off to no end. Ill leave it there. Heres cnns headline saying these top biden vp contenders are facing sexual tropes even in 2020 in these final stretches. What have you seen in the News Coverage recently . I mean, i think i would echo everything hill rary said. To her point and yours, someone should start a newsroom that deals with that. Oh, wait, we just did, a week ago today. We dont know were all waiting to find out who joe biden picks as his Vice President ial running mate. We know, one, she will be a woman and, two, that she will be attacked and vilified for having a voice in american politics. This is really fortunate, to your point, brian, because we are on the verge of celebrating the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment for which our newsroom is named but obviously with an asterisk for the omission of black women who had to fight twice as heart for that vote. And women still 100 years later are fighting for democracy. For the women of color in this conversation, what we have seen is a disrespect that is a dual assault on their race and gender. Errin, im glad you mentioned the 19th. Its at 19news. Org. Thank you. I spoke with cofounder and ceo, so people can check that out. 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On the other hand, often times, at least several times weve documented when the president is challenged by a female reporter, he tends to storm out. This is what happened at bedminster on saturday, cbs news correspondent paula reed pointed out that trump has been lying about veterans choice for years so trump walked off the stage. Lets run the clips from previous times when hes walked out in response to tough questions from reporters. As jay rosen put it, this is a pattern. When women reporters challenge him and make it clear they will keep insisting, his perimeter defense light up, his systems shut down and he cant process whats happening so he ends the briefing. Is that what its all about . David zurawik and Nicole Hemmer are with me. Do you see what i see, the way he reacts to men and women . Yes, i do, brian, i absolutely do. Its so pronounced some ways that its an embarrassment to us to have someone who reacts whos that problematic in terms of gender as our president. And what i think it is the flip side, though, when he is forced it is notable when hes forced to face the facts, as paula reid did yesterday, when he has to hear hes lying, he does he didnt he didnt double down in that particular case, at least. Well, yes. But its the combination. I think its about patriarchy, command, control and power. All of those things. He cannot accept being, a, corrected, b, seeing a woman in authority dare to correct him, and so i think this you know, his answer is, im going to end the press conference. Its a form of control. And it also, you know, i think his advisers would say, keeps him from really hurting himself. But its the act of control. Hes losing control because a woman who is in a righteous position representing the people of america and the press is questioning him. And shes right. Shes got facts on her side. Im surprised his head doesnt explode in terms of his history with gnder. He was announcing executive orders that are both possibly unconstitutional, so using powers in new ways, but also under whelming when you look under the hoods. He got big, bold headlines where he appeared to be taking big action, nicole, but then when you look at what he actually did, throw of the effective four are memoranda for requests for different agencies to do different things. This is essentially a media i would argue a media stunt where he wants to appear to be in control helping people suffering but theres not a lot happening beneath the surface. Right. Weve seen this again and again from the president throughout the course of his administration. He makes these big, bold pronouncements and either doesnt follow through or you scratch the surface and you see there is no there there. And it really comes down to how journalists report on this. How our push notifications blow up whenever he makes these kind of announcements. Normally he does get these headlines hes looking for and then the followup stories a week or two later dont have the same impact. I do think theres a problem in the coverage where his claims are being amplified before theyre really put to the test. Exactly. The headlines miss the mark when they treat it like its a monumental thing, and then only the next day do we actually find out that a lot of this cant be done or that in the case of the payroll tax cut, most companies arent going to do it. You know, david, do you think the press still hasnt learned 3 1 2 years in, still hasnt learned to not just, you know, use a pinch of salt but to use all the salt when it comes to taking his claims with a grain of salt . You know, brian, i think the press tries and tries. We are always behind the curve with this guy. You know, i think in february 2016, i said, if i was more religious, id believe trump was put on this earth to test american and world journalism. He does. He does this. He is getting away with this. Youre absolutely right. Then you see the factchecking that cnn does and the post does and they say, hes going all out. Theyre trying to do it. But no be has transgressed so many boundaries the way he does. In some cases it does blow our minds. We have to settle back and go, wow, nobody could do that. He did it. Its awful. How do we respond to it . And also, we have to be careful. There are a lot of people out there fed by him and by rightwing messaging that say, youre being unfair to trump. You go out of your way to criticize trump, blah, blah, blah, and it undermines our credibility even though we have to question him the way we do. You know, it started back when the New York Times decided to call him a liar on page one. Remember, our great handwringing about that. Well, he was a liar. But our traditions go against being that hard in terms of and clear in clear in a way in terms of labeling someone because weve never had labels. Lyndon johnson lied, but not like this. David, nicole, thank you both. Tminus two weeks until my book about trump and fox news comes out. Its called hoax. Trumps tv addiction. Go to buyhoax. Com to preorder your copy. Up next well go live to tampa, florida, to hear from a newsroom that is overwhelmed by obituaries for covid19 victims. The story of black america is the story of america. Its the story of a people who have pushed this country to live up to its stated ideals. But black people have always believed in the promise of a better america. So, at this moment were in now we must choose to fight for that better america. And just like our ancestors who stood up to the violent racists of a generation ago, we will stand up to this president and say no more. Because america is better than him. So we choose to be bigger, we choose to be bolder, we choose to bring back justice, respect and dignity to this country. We choose joe biden. To lead us towards that american promise, together. 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Heres the project at the Seattle Times called lives remembered. And heres the boston heralds remembrance giving prominence to, quote, more pore people how they lived than how they died. Here in cnn wolf blitzer has an in memoriium segment. The Tampa Bay Times has committed to honoring every life lost to covid in the state. Reporters have been working on this since april. Profiling individuals with moving vignettes. There have been a deluge of deaths since then. Joining me now is claire mcneill, a Tampa Bay Times reporter, one of six working on this. Am i characterizing it fairly, its been hard to keep up, youve been overwhelmed by the number of obits you need to write . Absolutely. I spent two weeks lately dhiping away on this project while reporting on other stories and even spending hours combing through medical xmers records and obituaries. We cant keep up with the daily death toll. Do you think youll be able to write vignettes for every life lost . We hope so but at this point we have about 300 collected in our project and the death toll has already passed 8,000. We have fewer than 4 . This is with a weekly effort with rotating reporters to make sure we can stay attuned to this. Its just hard to watch the numbers pile up like this. Very hard, yeah. Sometimes you see paid obits. This is obituaries where you interview loved ones to write these. When i notice reading local papers, theres an increase of both, more death notices because there are more deaths and obituaries. Whats the secret to writing an obituary at the end of the day that you feel proudest of . I think the key to a good obituary is talking to a Family Member long enough that you get past the things like their smile lighting up a room and you get to the real details that tell you about a persons life. That they were an amazing sandwich maker or they lived their whole lives waiting for their sports team to make it to the playoffs. These things that make them a real person that stay with you beyond cliches and beyond the language of grief. Right, right, absolutely. Claire, thank you very much for being here. Best of luck with this project. Tell people how they can find it and how they can help. Sure. On tampabay. Com youll see a link to our obituary project, as well as a google form within that page where you can submit memories of your loved one. And i think for us its just a way of saying that even as the death toll grows, were still going to be here, were still paying attention, every life matters, and no death is faceless. So, please help us make this project a reality as we keep marking the losses. Claire, thank you. And let me just note, you know, we have to always remember in this coverage, america doesnt know the true death toll. The death toll is higher than we all know. The excess deaths in this country may already be over 200,000 this year because theres not enough testing and the testing is full of delays and failures, we dont know the true extent of this calamity. As bad as we think it is, as bad as the data indicates, it is even worse. If youre not angry about that, you are not paying attention. More reliable sources in a moment. That wall is your everest but not any more. Today lets paint. Behr. Exclusively at the home depot. For our families and for our communities. When we spend taxpayers money, we should use it to buy American Products and support american jobs. Its time to help Small Businesses who will purchase Clean Energy Technologies to fight Climate Change and enhance national security. We have to invest in what the jobs and industries of tomorrow are going to be. We have a great opportunity, build back and build back better. Im joe biden and i approve this message. Water . Why . ahhhh incoming ahhhahh im saved ahhh ride . No, im good. Im gonna walk. Lets go water tastes like, well, water. So we fixed it. Mio now to President Trumps potemkin village. There is disturbing new reporting in todays Washington Post entitled how trump fell short in containing the virus and theres a quote in the story from an Administration Source saying that trumps aides are trying to build him a potemkin village every day. What is that . Lets go to directionary. Com. A pretentiously showy facade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition. A potemkin village. This is often covered in it politics, in russia buildings would be put up to be impressive facades but theyre not. Heres how the photographer depicted this concept. He found these artificial constructions all around the world. These potemkin villages where youre supposed to be impressed by the outside but theres nothing going on on the inside. That is a way to summarize the trump administrations failures about the coronavirus. The president is being fed information by his aides to make him feel good, that is actually misleading them and making the situation worse. Again, front page of the Washington Post, a quote from a Senior Administration official involved in the pandemic response. Quote, everyone is busy trying to create a potemkin village for him every single day. Youre want supposed to see this behavior in liberal democracy founded on principles of rule of law. Everyone bends over backwards to create this potemkin village for him and for his inner circle. Thats scary. Thats cultish. I want to show you how this behavior about the pandemic is the president s behavior for the last three years. How his bad sources of information where people cherrypick what to show him, what to put in front of him, how fox stars mislead him, how thats crippled his entire presidency. Lets bring in cnns chief legal analyst and new york staff writer Jeffrey Toobin out with a new book entitled true crimes and misdemeanors the investigation of donald trump. Toward the end of your book, as you were writing this as the pandemic was upending the country this spring, so you had to address the pandemic toward the end of your book. You do see some connections. You have some parallels between trumps handling of the Mueller Probe and how that affected his presidency and whats happened this year. Can you tell us what those connections are . Well, i think the throughline of all of this is lying, is lying about what went on in the past and whats going on in the future. You know, one of the things we heard from the president over and over again, even after the Mueller Report came out was, you know, no obstruction and no collusion. You know, there was abundant evidence of obstruction of evidence, but the sheer repetition of that mantra became, you know, factual to the people who supported him. You know, in the pandemic, it has been a constant stream of similar lies from the president. You know, anyone can get a test whenever they want. You know, were doing great. Were doing better than other countries. The only reason the numbers are going up is because were doing more testing. All of these lies are consistent with how he dealt with the accusations throughout the Mueller Investigation and especially during the impeachment proceeding where, you know, he kept saying that the zelensky was perfect. Repetition is not true. But repetition is how donald trump deals with it. The way you end your book through impeachment as the pandemic is beginning, its worked for him, at least in the short term. Well, it has to a certain extent. I mean, i think, you know, in the sweep of history the president will still look terrible based on what went on in the Mueller Report and as i lay out in the book. I think mueller himself made some mistakes that allowed trump to defeat the worst accusations that mueller leveled. But, you know, this is a president who has never been particularly popular with the american people. This is a president who is behind when it comes to reelection. Now, obviously the most important thing in terms of trumps legacy and in terms of the legacy of the investigations i read about is what happens in the election because if he is reelected, it will be a complete repudiation of the mueller, of the impeachment, and a recognition that the public simply didnt care about that, but the election hasnt happened yet. If he loses the election, then i think the historical legacy will look different. The drip, drip, drip of News Coverage, bombshell after bombshell coming out over days and weeks and months, it wound up benefiting trump because by the time mueller came out out with his detailed, damning report, people already thought they knew what happened. It wasnt mueller himself. As you know, it was a leakfree operation. But the excellence of the journalism that we saw from the New York Times, from the Washington Post, and from cnn, among other places, you know, think about the disclosures, you know, the fact that the june 2016 meeting where the email to donald trump jr. And Jared Kushner said clearly that this was a russian government effort to help donald trump get reelected. Think about don mcgahn being told to lie about that. All those were bombshell arguably impeachable offenses. But the fact that they came out in piecemeal fashion and, you know, the trump journalistic structure at fox news and related entities had the opportunity to process them and excuse them, that really did lessen the impact of the Mueller Report, even though those facts remain incredibly devastating right. The crimes are right there in plain text. But also bill barrs letter made all the difference in the world. And you call out the press for that. Well, you know, i call out the press, but i also and of course the real fault is barrs because it was an egregious distortion of what mueller did and what mueller found. But mueller himself who was someone who really believes in institutions, whether its the marine corps, the fbi, or the department of justice, he sort of turned the process over to barr for the Public Disclosure of his work. He trusted bar to do an honorable job. And i think that was indicative of muellers the fact that he was in many respects a man out of time, that he is someone who had faith in institutions that had been warped by donald trump and our contemporary political culture. And he left himself helpless to this distortion, especially because barrs letter came out in the middle of march and the report didnt come out for a month. So barrs words were the only thing the public had to go on for a month, allowing those impressions to settle in even though they were deeply contradicted by what mueller himself wrote. Right, right. Toobins book is true crimes and misdemeanors. You think you know the story, but you have no idea. More reliable sources in just a moment. I have moderate to severe pnow, theres skyrizi. Things are getting clearer, yeah i feel free to bare my skin yeah thats all me. Nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin thats my new plan. Nothing is everything. 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