Every media outlet needs to start planning now to avoid amplifying this. "Trump declares victory" is NOT an acceptable headline or tweet or chyron, nor is "he said," "she said" coverage an appropriate journalistic approach to an attack on legal vote counting in a democracy.
Trump just declared once again on Fox News that the outcome of the election cannot be legitimate if he loses. This is the third time he's made this claim explicit. Yet the political media just seems to largely tolerate it. That's insane. New piece:
https://t.co/6eGo2DizV1
@ProcterGamble Hi @ProcterGamble - wouldn't your position on this be a lot more credible if you also took action to stop funding Fox News, which regularly pumps out climate misinformation and denial like this? https://t.co/7tGlzag22v
Our world is on fire - yet despite claiming to be committed to environmental sustainability, @ProcterGamble continues to advertise its products with Fox News - one of the world's most notorious sources of climate change denial & misinformation: https://t.co/CuDQPp0FFA
Hi @ProcterGamble - as a major Fox advertiser, will you speak out and distance yourselves from this kind of dangerous rhetoric? Surely this isn't the kind of messaging that brands like @Gillette want to be seen to align with? cc @GilletteUK
The first ten minutes of tonight's Tucker Carlson Tonight are the closest thing I think I've ever seen to pure, unfiltered fascism in American public life. Going out to the largest cable news audience ever.
Here are the top advertisers on Fox News over the past few weeks. @safelite@allstate@goloforlife topped the list last week, and it looks like @usaa is returning to advertising again as well. #DropFox
We know @subaru_usa doesn't want its ads on #disinformation sites. Time to #checkadtech and clean up the #Advertising ecosystem. Read our findings of ads funding Antifa conspiracies here: https://t.co/4CP8sECZi4
Insiders acknowledged that Fox News was always, on one level, a political project, but many said they were shocked by how thoroughly Fox and the GOP had been merged by Trump, Hannity, and a handful of other power players. “We surrendered,” one anchor said. https://t.co/YTsoQRxU1i
One reason the U.S. is suffering through a worse outbreak than any other rich country: The size and strength of right-wing media organizations here that broadcast scientific falsehoods.
There is no equivalent in other countries. https://t.co/i39zFINzDa
The caravan tactic but now falsely claiming coastal cities are in open revolt and have to be put down with force. No other way to describe this but authoritarianism.