Margaret Sullivan

When will this media reckoning come? I’m thinking never. New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In settling a case they could have won against Trump, ABC News broke the first rule of resisting autocracy: “Do not obey in advance.” My post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretsullivan/p/abc-news-should-never-have-settled?r=1yc91&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

My latest on Bezos bulldozing the reputation and business of the paper he vowed to save. And yes, it’s personal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion

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The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.

Is it really a “clash over the facts”?