Stelter’s Silence of the Lambs

Brian Stelter
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Dylan Byers
August 31, 2022

Brian Stelter, who is leaving Manhattan this week and moving to a farm in New Jersey, has dropped from his Twitter bio his myriad former professional titles—CNN chief media correspondent, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources program, author of the influential Reliable Sources newsletter, et cetera—and now humbly describes himself simply as a “media nerd.” In private conversations with some former colleagues, however, he has floated the idea that he might be worthy of another moniker: “sacrificial lamb.”