Thread by @ggreenwald

There's apparently a shortage of people who criticize Fox News -- contrary to my belief that billionaire-funded groups like Media Matters, CNN and MSNBC and digital liberal outlets do little else -- and Democrats have united with "leftists" in an urgent call for me to do it more.

For the union of Dems and AOC-leftists who have decided it's urgent that I use my platform to copy CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Media Matters, Daily Beast & basically every liberal digital outlet by spending my time discussing Fox, here's my 3-part answer to a critic who asked on @GetCallin.

Here's Part 2 (excuse the choppiness: I mistakenly spoke where the connection was weak). Basically, it’s about how I chose to use my journalistic platform. From the time I began writing, I focused on what was being under-covered, not echo what everyone was saying (Orange Trump!).

And finally Part 3. The easiest path in journalism is to echo the consensus. It creates popularity, generates invites and applause, avoids being attacked. I could’ve spent the last 5 years being @acosta: screeching about Trump and Fox. That's not why I went into journalism.

Finally: that I cater what I say to staying on TV is moronic. If that were true, why did I spend 2016/17 saying all the things that would inevitably alienate me from MSNBC & CNN? If being on TV were my goal, I'd have been a fanatical Russiagater and Trump-is-Hitler hysteric.