THREAD: @FoxNews has played the long game & it has very nearly cost us our democracy. When they started their slogan was “Fair & Balanced”. It implied that the rest of the mainstream news channels, which the majority of Americans believed & trusted, were NOT fair or balanced. 1/8
It also created a false equivalency, where the GOP & Fox News pundits could make increasingly outrageous & factually dubious statements that could be given the same weight as mainstream news reporting, which in the vast majority of instances was down the middle & fact-driven. 2/8
Fox News was the originator of “both sides” political reporting, not in that they reported both sides, but that they CREATED the very dynamic that one side’s political demagoguery was the equivalent of the other side’s earnest political discourse. 3/8
They shifted public perception to create the belief that America was more conservative than they actually were, that what was once moderate was now liberal, and that “real” Americans were the ones that belonged to that more conservative, fundamentalist America they promoted. 4/8
Over the years the punditry that Fox News put on the air became increasingly divisive and vitriolic, & Republicans became more & more dependent on the divisions that were being created, as their electoral fortunes floundered due to the changing demographic makeup of America. 5/8
In the Trump era, which really began when Fox News went all in on racism during the Obama yrs, they’ve now reached their final evolution as a full-blown lock-step propaganda arm of the GOP. Rupert Murdoch, more than any dictator on the planet, is a danger to democracy itself. 6/8
Fox News has now succeeded in creating a pervasive alternate reality bubble where its viewers & the greater conservative media industry at large can say anything, no matter how insanely dangerous. There is no longer a bridge too far. Nothing is off-limits. 7/8
We must defeat Donald Trump in such a resounding fashion that it shakes the very foundation of the alternate reality that Fox News has created. No less than American democracy is on the ballot November 3rd. #Vote #VoteEarly #VoteBlueDownBallot #VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica 8/8
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