Margaret Sullivan

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

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Two opposing media takes on Epstein's 'lost world' Plus, I correct a factual error I made on a video podcast with Paul Krugman

And hats off to @sulliview.bsky.social for using her column to correct a misstatement she made on a podcast about @latimes.com owner Patrick Soon-Shiong — and using it as a teaching moment about the dubious accuracy of artificial intelligence

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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy' Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files

…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?

Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!

Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.

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This isn't the primary point of @sulliview.bsky.social's excellent column, but its point about AI strikes me as important. She is correcting an error she made in a podcast in which she said Patrick Soon-Shiong as at Trump's inauguration. He wasn't. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-opposi...

Two opposing media takes on Epstein's 'lost world' Plus, I correct a factual error I made on a video podcast with Paul Krugman

Check out today's newsletter from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on two very different views of the Epstein emails

Spoiler alert: One of them is mine! The other is the "lost world" heralded by the NYT margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-opposi...

Talking With Margaret Sullivan The state of the media in Trump Two Year One

@sulliview.bsky.social walks the talk, she tells @pkrugman.bsky.social:

"I'm taking some of my Substack royalties and plowing it back into continuing subscriptions at basically all of the major news organizations. . . . I [also] think it is really important to foster and support local news." [1/2]

Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.

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GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.

This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.

The BBC’s editing error was serious, but the response is way out of proportion | Margaret Sullivan The broadcaster should not cave to Trump’s demands

What should the BBC do about their clear mistake editing the Panorama segment on Trump on Jan 6th? @sulliview.bsky.social’s new column provides a balanced view: admit to the problem & how it will be remedied, don’t back down to Trump’s attacks & overblown rhetoric
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Stop me if you've heard this before:

If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???

They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023.

Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper

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Why the media (not just MAGA) is freaked out over Mamdani Plus: Midterms success for Democrats must avoid the false choice between affordability and opposing Trump

"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)."

Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
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Why the media (not just MAGA) is freaked out over Mamdani Plus: Midterms success for Democrats must avoid the false choice between affordability and opposing Trump

‘Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic mode) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement).’

@sulliview.bsky.social on the media freak out over NYC’s new mayor

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Why the media (not just MAGA) is freaked out over Mamdani Plus: Midterms success for Democrats must avoid the false choice between affordability and opposing Trump

@sulliview.bsky.social correctly identifies the media freakout over the new mayor of NYC.

Once again, editorial pages are out of step with their readers. (Meanwhile, those of us outside of the city care more about Trump’s war on America.)
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Post-election Extra! A sampling of media wins and flops, following Tuesday's "bloody nose" for Trump

The good, the bad and the ugly of Election Day coverage from @sulliview.bsky.social...

"That’s something [Ben] Collins couldn't have written while employed in mainstream media, which undoubtedly is part of why he's doing something very different now."
-- @sulliview.bsky.social on this former NBC News reporter (2018-24)

Q: What’s the point of journalism now? A: History By Samuel G. Freedman Eight months into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, POLITICO broke an explosive story about the president’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. The scoop ...

Thoughtful, rich piece on “why journalism?” by longtime journalism professor Samuel G. Freedman

https://ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2025/11/06/q-whats-the-point-of-journalism-now-a-history/

Full house for "The Future of Press Freedom in an Era of Democratic Backsliding" panel. Thank you @randersenjones.bsky.social, @attorneynora.bsky.social, @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @joelsimonsays.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social, & @sonjawest.bsky.social for joining us to discuss #pressfreedom.

“This firewall in the punditry between Trump and economic messaging—that is not how working-class voters thought about these issues,” a Dem strategist tells me.

I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy:

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Journalism heroes at Knight-Ridder: "DC Bureau Chief John Walcott, and reporters Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel, and Joe Galloway."
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It’s clear why Zohran Mamdani is leading in the New York mayoral race | Margaret Sullivan There’s a clarity about Mamdani’s message that stands in sharp contrast to most Democratic politicians

OPINION @sulliview.bsky.social “There’s a clarity about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social message that stands in sharp contrast to most Democratic politicians”. Will the Democratic Party emerge from its funk, get its act together? Not a hairdryer, a blowtorch? #Trump www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here's the ugly backstory. Plus: "Stealth editing' at the Washington Post; and an opportunity lost at the New York Times

🏅 to @bgrueskin.bsky.social or is it a 🍃 (laurel emoji needed) https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-just-loves-the-revamped-cbs

Here's @sulliview.bsky.social on that stealth edit by Washpost Opinion, as they endorsed Trump's ballroom project:

"Best practices would have made the editing change transparent, but we’re not really in best-practices territory here. We’re in 'oops, maybe no one will notice' territory."

ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw

Thank you, @normornstein.bsky.social

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here's the ugly backstory. Plus: "Stealth editing' at the Washington Post; and an opportunity lost at the New York Times

Another must read from @sulliview.bsky.social
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Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here's the ugly backstory. Plus: "Stealth editing' at the Washington Post; and an opportunity lost at the New York Times

#CBS News published the entire transcript, including Trump’s LIES about the 2020 election, which also “didn’t make the cut”🔥 ..
“And actually ‘60 Minutes’ paid me a lot of money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, & I’m sure you’re not…
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@sulliview.bsky.social on why #ZohranMamdani will [very likely] be next mayor of New York:

In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…

Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:

Laurels and Darts: 60 Minutes of soft soap. Some puffery at CBS News. Plus: Radley Balko reads the receipts, New York magazine thieving from the New York Times, and a “high-ranking dumb” drug bust.

What will become of CBS News and 60 Minutes?

It’s far too early to say, but a segment on last week’s show isn’t encouraging.

In Laurels & Darts, via @columjournreview.bsky.social

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