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

1/ Here we are, 2 years in, and the press still hasn’t properly addressed the fact that the President of the United States lies to the American people on a daily basis. It should literally be the only thing talked about on air, the only questions asked of Trump & his surrogates. 2/ There is no national conversation to be had, no policy discussion to be hammered out, no path forward as a country when we as citizens, to whom the press are beholden, simply cannot trust the words coming from our gov’t. And it’s not treated with the seriousness it deserves.