Impeachment & the Press with Margaret Sullivan

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As the House moves forward with the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, how the press covers it could determine the outcome. This week, Katie and Joe sit down with Margaret Sullivan to talk about impeachment and the press. Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post and before that Margaret served as the fifth public editor of The New York Times and was the first woman to hold that position. Margaret is a native of Lackawanna, New York and began her career as a summer intern at the Buffalo News becoming the first woman editor there and managing editor in the hundred and thirty nine year history of that storied newspaper. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.6	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.2	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.2	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.5	Have power and words have consequences.
0:31.6	Before we begin today, Joe, we wanted to talk about
0:34.7	Politicon, the annual bipartisan unconventional political convention,
0:40.0	which will be held this year in Nashville, Tennessee on October 26th and 27th.
0:45.2	If you're not familiar with Politicon, the goal was to bring Democrats, Republicans,
0:48.9	and people of all political stripes together to talk about politics and a smart and most
0:53.0	importantly entertaining way.
0:54.6	And more importantly, you and I are going to be there to record a live episode of Words Matter
1:00.7	from Politicon in Nashville. Yeah, and I think that they are calling it the Coachella of
1:05.2	politics. I may be a little too old for that, but I think our listeners are not going to want to
1:10.4	miss Words Matter from Politicon. And with that, once again, Joe and I are honored to be joined
1:17.1	today by Margaret Sullivan. Margaret is the media columnist for the Washington Post, and before that,
1:22.6	Margaret served as the fifth public editor of The New York Times. Margaret began her career in
1:28.2	journalism in upstate New York with her hometown newspaper, The Buffalo News. Margaret Sullivan,
1:34.0	welcome back to Words Matter. Thank you so much. Great to be here again.
1:37.6	So we want to jump right off and talk about how you have described Trump's impeachment strategy.
1:43.2	You've called it, quote, counter punch, confuse, and con. But you say it depends on the media.
1:50.0	So explain what you mean by that and how it's working so far. Well, you know, this is how he's
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