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Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian

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The Guardian view on Europe’s politics: volatile and drifting rightwards

T he taxation of property in the eastern German state of Thuringia would normally be a subject of strictly local concern. But last week a vote to cut...

22.09.2023 20

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The Guardian view on Derna’s flood tragedy: Libya’s leaders have enjoyed impunity for too long

T o count the thousands killed by the floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna does not truly help us grasp their loss. “Those people are not...

21.09.2023 3

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Rupert Murdoch’s reign at Fox News is over. But the damage he did may last forever

In a chilling scene at the end of James Graham’s play Ink, Rupert Murdoch – having made his indelible mark on British media and society – slows...

21.09.2023 4

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Jann Wenner’s bias against women and Black musicians is shocking – but not surprising

O ne of my older brothers subscribed to Rolling Stone magazine in its early years, and while I saw women and musicians of color gracing its cover from...

19.09.2023 5

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With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways

Christiane Amanpour has reported all over the world, so she recognizes a democracy on the brink when she sees one. Last week, as she celebrated her 40...

15.09.2023 40

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Elon Musk’s hypocrisy about free speech hits a new low

Even before he took over Twitter, Elon Musk touted himself as a “free speech absolutist”. This was always a troubling notion for an insanely rich...

07.09.2023 80

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I once was skeptical about Mark Thompson. But he’s a good bet for CNN

I n late 2012, I was the newly minted public editor (or newsroom watchdog) at the New York Times, when the news hit that Mark Thompson was likely to...

31.08.2023 20

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Vivek Ramaswamy is America’s demagogue-in-waiting

H e thinks the climate crisis is a hoax, supports Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, and would gladly pardon Donald Trump on Day 1 of his...

25.08.2023 2

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Witness tampering? Samuel Bankman-Fried earned a judge’s rebuke

Judge Lewis Kaplan has had enough of Samuel Bankman-Fried’s envelope-pushing. “He has gone up to the line over and over again and I am going to...

15.08.2023 5

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Every time the music dies, we lose a little bit of our souls

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling ‘bout half-past deadline. Like the narrator in the Band’s classic song, The Weight, I had found myself not...

11.08.2023 5

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Trump is hoping his ‘free speech’ defense will work. It won’t

03.08.2023 5

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A strong whiff of desperation surrounds threats to impeach Biden

The setting was inevitable, and the personalities predictable. On a Fox News interview (where else?) conducted by Sean Hannity (who else?), the House...

26.07.2023 4

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I took RFK Jr’s phone call long ago. Now I regret it

My assistant in the New York Times public editor’s office said Robert F Kennedy was on the phone. Did I want to take the call? This was roughly a...

18.07.2023 10

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I signed up for Threads against my better judgement

I signed up for Threads the other day, somewhat against my better judgment. After all, Threads doesn’t have the best blood lines; nothing in its...

11.07.2023 20

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On the Fourth of July, a few reasons to feel encouraged about US democracy

It’s been a grim week or so in the United States, especially for those with progressive values. In Baltimore, a deadly mass shooting underscored,...

04.07.2023 100

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Alito’s wrongdoing makes a supreme court ethics overhaul an imperative

T he US supreme court is an extraordinarily exclusive club. The nine members are unelected and employed for life, or until they step down...

22.06.2023 7

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Donald Trump’s arrest is ugly but it’s also democracy in action

Amid the palm fronds and the red baseball caps, after a motorcade on a Florida highway and before a shameful fundraiser at a New Jersey golf resort,...

14.06.2023 50

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The CNN chief messed up in many ways. Only one of them was fatal

It was one of those pieces of news that was simultaneously stunning and utterly expected: Chris Licht was out of CNN. No doubt, the chairman and CEO...

08.06.2023 3

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Gay and trans people deserve to live without persecution. Why is that so hard?

Pride Month is here, and this year it’s happening in a tough environment. American corporations – although eager to declare their support for...

01.06.2023 100

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Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be

P olitical journalists and pundits spent much of Wednesday obsessing over the gimmicky way that the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was announcing...

25.05.2023 100

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Vice is going bankrupt, BuzzFeed News is dead. What does it mean?

I n a seminal 2009 essay, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, the brilliant New York University professor Clay Shirky made the point that...

16.05.2023 6

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E Jean Carroll won. And Trump can be now portrayed as a sexual abuser

N o, the verdict did not amount to total vindication. But for E Jean Carroll and for the more than two dozen other women who, over many years, have...

10.05.2023 70

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When journalists are persecuted, we all suffer

Jodie Ginsberg remembers an important lesson from her decade as a Reuters foreign correspondent and bureau chief: there simply is no substitute for...

03.05.2023 5

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Tucker Carlson was Fox News’ biggest star. Then he became its biggest liability

On any other day, the revelation that anchor Don Lemon was out at CNN would have been a big deal in the world of media news. But Tucker Carlson’s...

25.04.2023 50

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Dominion’s suit exposed how Fox damages democracy with its lies

A s opening arguments neared on Tuesday afternoon, even the most hardened skeptics might have found themselves thinking the impossible was actually...

19.04.2023 80

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Biden is too old and not especially popular, but he is the Trump-slayer. That’s why he is right to run in 2024

J oe Biden was in his element this week on his genial tour of Ireland, meeting the politicians, meeting the people, being Joe. But in keeping with...

14.04.2023 80

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Cost of the crown The British monarchy’s ties to slavery are writ large in the historical archives

O n 27 March 2007, nearly 450 years after Elizabeth I sponsored John Hawkins’ slaving expeditions to west Africa, Elizabeth II attended a service...

06.04.2023 90

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Trump, the ultimate media manipulator, may finally pay the price for his tactics

As a reality TV star, as a would-be business mogul, as a political candidate and as president, Donald Trump always counted on the news media to do his...

06.04.2023 70

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The arrest of an American journalist in Russia is awful. For me, it’s also painfully personal

His face stared out from news stories on Thursday morning, accompanied by headlines like this one in the Guardian: “Russia arrests reporter and...

31.03.2023 100

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Trump’s indictment over hush money to a porn star would be poetic justice

You have to hand it to Stormy Daniels. After all of Donald Trump’s well-documented malfeasance over the decades – his fake university and failed...

24.03.2023 100

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With $1.6bn at stake, Fox News is suddenly interested in freedom of the press

A s it tries to defend itself against the accusation that it knowingly spread lies about the 2020 presidential election, Fox News has touted some...

18.03.2023 100

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Ron DeSantis is just getting started with his rightwing agenda. That should worry us all

The Florida governor Ron DeSantis likes to brag that he’s just getting started with his rightwing agenda. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” was...

10.03.2023 200

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Everyone loves to hate the Oscars. But here’s why I’ll be watching

“Ooh, the Hollywood issue!” was my first thought on pulling the glossy new Vanity Fair magazine – timed to this Sunday’s Academy Awards –...

06.03.2023 10

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Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies?

If you’ve paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates, the recent revelations from a legal filing come as no huge surprise. From the...

24.02.2023 300

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Biden waited long to address the mysterious flying objects. Now we know why

After weeks of speculation about a Chinese spy balloon and other weird things in the skies over North America, President Joe Biden on Thursday did...

17.02.2023 20

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From Joe Biden to Madonna: ageism is everywhere

Just before President Biden turned 80 in November, he said something that I could identify with – that he didn’t even want to say his age out...

13.02.2023 70

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Twitter probably fumbled the Hunter Biden story. But don’t expect a sane investigation

Why I’m not hopeful that the Republican-led House investigation will stay grounded in reality

08.02.2023 10

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The media is blowing Biden’s documents ‘scandal’ out of proportion

The news media has greeted the supposed scandal of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents with breathless glee

31.01.2023 100

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How I would fix Twitter if I were CEO

My name was floated as a potential head of the social media platform. Here’s what I’d do if I were suddenly in charge

25.01.2023 80

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