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Washington Post columnist says media 'never fully learned how to cover Trump' but 'might have saved democracy'

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Fox News contributor Joe Concha weighs in on the mainstream media's coverage of election celebrations vs. Trump rallies on'America's Newsroom.' Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan suggested that her journalist peers "never fully learned how to cover" President Trump but "might have saved democracy" following his projected defeat against Joe Biden. "Over the past four or five years, I've been sharply critical of the media, including that subset I like to call the'reality-based press,'" Sullivan wrote on Sunday. "My continuing complaint has been that mainstream journalism never quite figured out how to cover President Trump, the master of distraction and insult who craved media attention and knew exactly how to get it, regardless of what it meant for the good of the nation." Sullivan indicated that the press was too obedient of the "deeply abnormal president," writing "When he said'jump,' journalists all too often said'how high?'" and that the media "constantly sought to normalize him, treating his deranged tweets like legitimate news and piously forecasting, every time he sounded the least bit calm, that he was becoming'presidential.'"

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