Margaret Sullivan’s “Newsroom Confidential” is an unserious work of #Resistance fan fiction
- “The author and her industry peers aren’t as influential as they used to be, which is bad because their opinions are the right opinions. They base their views and actions on science and reason.”
- The American people do not trust the mainstream media as much because of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but the future of democracy is at stake.
Newsroom Confidential is half memoir, half lament for the media's fading relevance
- Sullivan recounts the "lessons" and "worries" she accumulated over the course of her 42-year career in journalism, which more or less traced the industry's rise and fall in the post-Watergate era
- A wide-eyed intern who worked her way up to editor of the Buffalo News, she abandoned the Rust Belt for the Upper West Side and the Times, where she served as public editor from 2012 to 2016
- After using her platform at the Times to denounce colleagues for giving "equal weight" to Republican positions and respond to "intense criticism... on Twitter," Sullivan jumped to the Washington Post
- There she joined a stable of mediocre pundits who chased clicks and assuaged traumatized liberals who required multiple columns a week about why hating Donald Trump and Fox News made you a good person
Sullivan argues that the media can restore public trust by denouncing the bad things more forcefully and declaring "war" on Donald Trump to save democracy.
- Journalists should "start being patriotic"
- Give proper attention to the role of the press in a democracy
- Finally reckoning with the "dire consequences" of their failure to prevent voters from letting them down in 2016
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- Katie Couric omitted portions of her 2016 interview with Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- She said she did it to "protect" her hero from criticism
- Advancing the correct agenda is paramount
- Sullivan doesn't seem all that concerned about the truth
- Praises Hannah-Jones and the controversial 1619 Project
- Days before her book came out, Sullivan's media colleagues teamed up to bully NBC News reporter Dasha Burns for daring to speak honestly about a Democrat
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