Margaret Sullivan: Media Not Pushing Impeachment, ‘Anathema’ to the Business

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 16, 2019
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CNN host and media janitor Brian Stelter set up a pretty easy mess for his cast of liberal media types to clean up during Sunday’s so-called “Reliable Sources”: whether or not the liberal media wanted to see President Trump impeached.

Among his left-wing panel, Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan stepped up to the plate to defend the industry from the most basics of facts. “Well, I mean, it's in the air,” she argued after being confronted with a graph showing the marked increase the media’s discussion of impeachment. “What President Trump has done, the release of the Mueller Report, all of these things add to you know, the political and cultural environment that brings impeachment to the fore.”

According to Sullivan, she had never spoken to or heard a “straight news journalist” push for Trump’s impeachment. “That's just really anathema to the way we do business,” she suggested.

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