Columbia University hired a former Washington Post columnist who embodies everything wrong with the media to serve as the school’s ethics chair.
On Jan. 1, Margaret Sullivan will start a new role as the Executive Director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at the Ivy League university.
“Margaret has spent her career protecting our country, shining light on our democracy and those who threaten it,” said Craig Newmark, a member of the Columbia Journalism Review Board of Overseers, in a university press release. “That patriotism and her lifelong commitment to trustworthy journalism make her the ideal person to lead the Center and its critical work.”
Sullivan’s prestigious role at the East Coast Ivy is the culmination of more than a decade covering media and politics as a hardcore activist cloaked as a truth-seeking journalist. If Newmark means “Republicans” for “those who threaten” said “democracy,” Sullivan, with six years spent at The Washington Post, is a natural fit. A thorough examination of Sullivan’s history at the capital paper self-righteously branded as a final beacon for democracy reveals an incoming ethics chief eager to preach about the perils of her political opponents.
In her first year at WaPo, Sullivan offered readers an ominous warning about the election of Donald Trump and the implications for the First Amendment.
“Everything we have — everything that makes us unlike any other nation — flows from those words and the protections they offer for free expression,” Sullivan wrote. “Donald Trump’s presidency is
