If you thought journalists were shameless before the “collusion” narrative crumbled, brace yourselves, because apparently that was nothing. Get a load of this B.S. from the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan:

You say you want a media reckoning? Here's mine. … New column: Serious journalists should be proud of — not bullied over — their Russia reporting https://t.co/3NaLXL8DES

Here’s a taste of that “reckoning”:

I reckon that American citizens would have been far worse off if skilled reporters hadn’t dug into the connections between Trump’s associates — up to and including his son Don Jr. — and Russians. That reporting has not been invalidated.

I reckon that the felonious lying to the public about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow remains a scandal — and that we know about this in large part because journalists were doing their jobs aggressively.

I reckon that the hard-nosed reporting about former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn — roundly denied, you might recall, before it was proved — was an early sign of the venality that was to follow.

I reckon that reporting by The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, CNN, Bloomberg News, the Daily Beast, Mother Jones, ProPublica and others drove forward a national conversation that needed to happen. As Americans saw with their own eyes Trump’s bizarre efforts to ingratiate himself with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, that reporting mattered and provided context.