February 20th, 2011

Reliable Sources – full transcript and embeddable video

Highlighted excerpts and embeddable video from CNN’s Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz, are below. A full transcript of the program follows. Reliable Sources airs Sundays, 11 a.m. to noon (ET). Highlights and the full transcript are after the jump.

HIGHLIGHTS

Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams on the assault on CBS’s Lara Logan:

“There has been a backlash because she’s a woman and because she’s attractive, and her attractiveness was one of the first things that came into a story that’s about a violent crime.”

Donatella Lorch on blogger Debbie Schlussel, who asked whether Logan had enjoyed her “liberation” in Egypt:

“How dare she talk to another human being like that?”

EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Are female reporters more vulnerable?

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Roll Call’s Christina Bellantoni on media coverage of the federal budget battle:

“It’s just cacophony, instead of focusing on actually how do you address this major problem in America.”

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Michael Medved, who once was a regular substitute for Limbaugh:

“I think that Rush has changed.  And I think that a large part of the conservative movement has changed because… the conspiratorial stuff about President Obama that he really, secretly hates America is a different tone.”

EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Chiding Limbaugh from the right

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Carol Kolb, head writer for the Onion News Network:

“Our anchors are actually 20 percent louder, they scream louder than the anchors on any other networks.”

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Media Monitor featured ABC’s Abbie Boudreau, David Segal of the New York Times, Bill O’Reilly, David Gregory, Whoopi Goldberg and Dana Loesch.

FULL TRANSCRIPT