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Jan 13, 2025 | 
margaretsullivan.substack.com | margaret sullivan
Friends, I’ve been away for a week or so, so please forgive my absence here. Quick personal note: My bucket list includes getting to all seven continents, and with my just completed trip to Morocco, I’ve checked off Africa. So I’m at five out of seven, with Australia and Antarctica yet to come. I also want to travel more in Africa, since Morocco isn’t typical, if there is such a thing. Anyway, it was great — as were brief visits on the way home to Seville and Madrid, cities that were new to me.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
portside.org | margaret sullivan |Ari Paul |Eric Berger |Max Tani
Media Bits and Bytes – December 10, 2024 Published December 10, 2024 Newsroom Leaders! Show Some SpineClock’s Ticking on TikTokWhere To, MSNBC?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
margaretsullivan.substack.com | margaret sullivan
Many of Donald Trump’s choices for Cabinet posts and other positions in his new administration have appalled me. To hit some lowlights: RFK Jr. with his dangerous ideas about vaccines and his history of wildly inappropriate behavior; Tulsi Gabbard, whom Russian state TV is referring to as “girlfriend”; Brendan Carr, one of the authors of the authoritarian playbook known as Project 2025; pure loyalist Pam Bondi, as attorney general, replacing the even more inappropriate Matt Gaetz.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | margaret sullivan
Posted Monday, December 2, 2024 9:27 am Many of Donald Trump’s choices for Cabinet posts and other positions in his new administration have appalled me.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
margaretsullivan.substack.com | margaret sullivan
In this post, I offer thoughts about what not to believe as we adjust to the horrifying reality of a second term for Donald Trump. I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts, and I very much appreciate the support many of you have shown here, by subscribing, commenting and sending encouraging words. The comments here will remain open to all, no longer requiring a paid subscription to participate. I hope that’s meaningful, in some small way.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | margaret sullivan
When Donald Trump tapped a Fox News host this week to run the mighty U.S. defense department, even Pete Hegseth’s colleagues at the rightwing media outlet were taken aback. “What the heck — can you believe it?” wondered Jesse Watters on his primetime show on Tuesday. “Taken right from this very couch!” exclaimed Hegseth’s fellow “Fox & Friends” talker Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday. This bemused enthusiasm was for public, on-air consumption.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
margaretsullivan.substack.com | margaret sullivan
The opinion section of Sunday’s New York Times is covered with those all-too-familiar red MAGA caps — 42 of them, in seven columns, six rows deep. Evoking the iconic Andy Warhol artwork of Campbell soup cans in 1962, it makes quite a statement. So does the headline. “This Is the New Establishment,” it declares. And the first of several sub-headlines goes further: “MAGA is who we are now.”Really? It’s not who I am, and, dear subscribers, I suspect it’s not who you are either.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
margaretsullivan.substack.com | margaret sullivan
A few weeks ago, I dedicated this newsletter, for the duration of the presidential campaign, to a concept for media coverage embodied in six words: ‘Not the odds, but the stakes.”The author of that elegant phrase is preeminent press critic and NYU professor Jay Rosen, who is also a friend of mine and, like me, a Buffalo native. Jay has a knack for such things; he also popularized the media criticism known as “the view from nowhere,” and the better idea of a “citizen’s agenda” for coverage.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | margaret sullivan
Posted Monday, November 4, 2024 9:50 am A few weeks ago, I dedicated this newsletter, for the duration of the presidential campaign, to a concept for media coverage embodied in six words: “Not the odds, but the stakes.” The author of that elegant phrase is preeminent press critic and NYU professor Jay Rosen, who is also a friend of mine and, like me, a Buffalo native. Jay has a knack for such things; he also popularized the media criticism known as “the view from nowhere,” and the better idea...
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
thepointmag.com | Rachel Wiseman |margaret sullivan
On Saturday, October 19th, Margaret Sullivan joined us at the University of Chicago for a public dialogue cohosted by the Program for Public Thinking. Sullivan, one of the country’s most prominent media critics, served as the public editor of the New York Times from 2012 to 2016, and went on to be a media columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian. Sullivan got her start at the Buffalo News, where she rose through the ranks to become the paper’s first woman editor.
