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Margaret Sullivan

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How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post

How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post
17.01.2025 30

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump

Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump
10.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

US media is in big trouble – but I find far less to be worried about at the Guardian

As a media critic and longtime journalist, I have serious worries about today’s news environment and its effect on democracy. I’m concerned...

30.12.2024 4

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Joe Biden is going out quietly but with trademark decency

As with many a lame-duck president in the past, it feels as if Joe Biden has already left the national stage even though he has a month left in his...

20.12.2024 10

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Margaret Sullivan

Joe Biden should pardon Reality Winner for her actions as a whistleblower

In late November, Reality Winner – who turned 33 this week – finished her lengthy punishment for sending a government document to a news...

05.12.2024 40

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Margaret Sullivan

I’d much rather share a ladies’ room with Sarah McBride than with Nancy Mace

Since the conversation, if you can call it that, about trans people always seems to come down to bathrooms, I am sure of one thing. I would much...

22.11.2024 50

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Any line of separation between Fox News and the US government is about to vanish

When Donald Trump tapped a Fox News host this week to run the mighty US defense department, even Pete Hegseth’s colleagues at the rightwing media...

14.11.2024 60

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Margaret Sullivan

Here’s how the American press can survive four years of Trump

Everything we know about the next US president suggests that the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before. After...

07.11.2024 7

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Margaret Sullivan

The candidates’ closing campaign messages could not be more different

In recent days, the Republican nominee for president of the United States has driven around in circles in a garbage truck, pretended to work at...

04.11.2024 8

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Washington Post and LA Times refused to endorse a candidate. Why?

The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job...

25.10.2024 3

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Margaret Sullivan

Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism

Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris with a barrage of combative questions about immigration, designed less to...

17.10.2024 4

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Will a disturbing scoop about Trump and Putin affect Trump’s electoral chances?

The news from Bob Woodward’s latest book is startling. The legendary Washington Post journalist has reported that as the Covid pandemic raged in...

10.10.2024 40

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Margaret Sullivan

JD Vance’s slick performance can’t change the danger of another Trump presidency

Tim Walz has said he’s an unskilled debater, and he didn’t disprove that on Tuesday night in the first and only 2024 vice-presidential debate....

02.10.2024 50

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Margaret Sullivan

JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficit

There was a moment when JD Vance could have turned back from the story. After the vice-presidential candidate posted on social media about Haitian...

19.09.2024 4

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Margaret Sullivan

Ella Baron on the Trump-Harris televised debate – cartoon

11.09.2024 6

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Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian view on reforming parliament: trust in democracy depends on it

This week, Conservative MPs asked the Commons to “pray against” statutory instrument No 869, which exercises expedient regulatory powers under...

11.09.2024 10

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Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian view on the US presidential debate: Kamala Harris’s triumph isn’t transformative, but it was essential

If presidential debates don’t really matter, as some have contended, Kamala Harris would not have been on the stage in Philadelphia on Tuesday...

11.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

ABC’s debate moderators did what they said was impossible: fact-checking Trump

They said it couldn’t be done. For years, we’ve heard all the reasons – excuses, really – that presidential debates cannot and should not be...

11.09.2024 7

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Margaret Sullivan

Left high and dry by Oasis ticket prices?

06.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Kamala Harris campaign is fighting on Trump’s level – and it’s working

Back in 2016, as Michelle Obama was doing a campaign speech for Hillary Clinton, she urged a way to deal with bullies like Donald Trump. “When they...

29.08.2024 60

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

Why did this conservative US judge endorse Kamala Harris?

J Michael Luttig has never endorsed a Democrat before. That’s no surprise since the well-respected legal scholar – a retired federal appeals...

21.08.2024 60

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Margaret Sullivan

Kamala Harris must speak to the press

I can understand why Kamala Harris hasn’t given a sit-down interview to a major media organization or done a no-holds-barred press conference...

13.08.2024 4

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Margaret Sullivan

I feel joy at my friend Evan Gershkovich’s release. But the anger lingers

It was a headline that many American journalists yearned to see, in the place they most wanted to see it. Spread across the Wall Street Journal’s...

02.08.2024 2

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Margaret Sullivan

The media is already failing in its duty to fairly cover Kamala Harris

It’s going to be ugly, that much is already clear. In the few days since Kamala Harris began her 2024 campaign for president, the media has shown...

26.07.2024 70

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Margaret Sullivan

‘Turning down the temperature’ shouldn’t mean silencing all criticism of Trump

Since Donald Trump was injured on Saturday in the chilling assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally, the nation has been advised – including...

16.07.2024 10

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Margaret Sullivan