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Margaret Sullivan
Personal blog · margaretsullivan.substack.compoliticswriting
Margaret Sullivan writes American Crisis, a personal blog at margaretsullivan.substack.com about politics and writing. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Margaret Sullivan's Substack for media criticism, such as her piece on a New York Times 'both sides' example. Commenters cite her posts as support for their own points rather than praising them.
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A newsletter that explores the crucial relationship between journalism and American democracy.
What Hacker News says?
Here's an article from Margaret Sullivan that goes into the details of one recent example of "both sides" from the NYT: https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-fals... But it's hardly isolated. Once you start to see it, you start to realize how pervasive it is in a lot of reporting. As above, it's the kind of thing that makes sense when you have two sides who, looking at the same facts, have differen…
Comment linking /p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in
on “I'm quitting the Washington Post”Submitted With democracy in free fall, the media must (finally) wake up as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt would almost make more sense if it were about supporting Israel. The reality is that the NYT and other outlets frequently behave this way across a wide spectrum of issues, foreign and domestic. They cut Trump an utterly astonishing amount of slack, much more than they would ever grant to any other politician. There are a couple of references below to start with, but if you do a search on Trump sanewashing you'll…
Comment linking /p/about-those-new-york-times-headlines
on “Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Send Conflicting Signals on Peace Prospects”