oh oh so true. and now, the moon christmas special. gotta go! take the savings challenge at xfinitymobile.com/mysavings or visit an xfinity store to learn how our switch squad makes switching fast and easy this holiday season. hey, i m brian stelter live in new york, and this is reliable sources, where we examine the story behind the story. and we figure out what is reliable. this hour, was it the worst week in fox news history? i ll explain how sean hannity and laura ingraham caught up in two scandals, how it s all actually linked together. plus, breaking news about joe manchin and fate of the build back better bill, a clear setback for president biden. and on a week of setbacks for vooid, the vice president is
trump, by his chief of staff, mr. meadows and also by a gang of constitutional thugs such as jim jordan. so what we have now is ongoing a conspiracy. looking towards the next election in 2024, the president of the united states in which the republican party is committed to voter suppression, which is really a seditious enterprise. so it s becoming a party of sedition such as we have never seen since the civil war and even then no president of the united states ever committed the kind of seditious acts as trump did on january 6th and through the end of his presidency. if that s the case, what do you want the press and the public to do? i think that we need to start covering the most important story for us to cover, yes, we need to continue giving hume prominence to covid and whatever breaking stories there are, but
there s a doom and gloom event to that coverage. here s misery on 34th street. i say bah humbug to that. getting covid in 2021 mean something different than december of 2020. the news coverage must convey the differences. i know there are flashbacks to march 2020 but the differences are the story. we need to convey that as the story changes, attitudes have to change too. you know the story we heard all along, living with covid. the key word of that phrase is covid, the key word is living. that brings me to some of the new questions that should be on the table now. the definition of cases is changing. with a highly transmissible variant, there are many, many, many cases, for example, here in new york city. more than 20 states are reporting rising cases right now. of course, that s the delta surge and then the new variant on top. so with this inevitability about more and more cases, what s the
fox news once branded itself as pro-police, pro-military, pro-law and order. but that s not believable anymore, if it ever was, because fox has done its part to make january 6th disappear. not only did we hardly ever cover the continuing daily fallout from the trump riots, they disparaged the people who do, they blast democrats and liz cheney and media outlets for caring. they re obsessed with january 6th. they re getting crushed by inflation. their vote elizabeth wagmiester are getting crushed by inflation but all they care about is january 6th. they want this distraction. they want to have this story out there. this january 6th fixation. the entire january 6th campaign has become one of revenge and defamation.
about global warming which a lot of think is about covid as well. it stars leo dicaprio, meryl streep. a asteroid is about to hit the earth and the media wants to ignore the story. the moral is the media is ignoring things in a telescope lensz b but the vast majority of stories are not like a clear picture of asteroid in a telescope lens. a lot of time that image is blurry. we don t know if it s an asteroid, a dove, raven or balloon. now a lot of people are trying to figure out, what exactly is the shape of this omicron threat? and it s not particularly clear. one quinn point, meteorologists not most journalists but meteorologists have a way of talking about predictions that involve percentage odds of certainty. they say 40% chance of rain, 90% chance of high wind. it might be nice for us to sort of steal that in epidemiology reporting and future reporting saying, we have 90% certainty this is more transmissible but only 6% certainty it s less