This canceling of Trumpists is all well & good. But we in journalism must grapple with our devil & clean our house.
What is to be done about Fox & its claim to journalism?
Should we not shun & shame Murdoch's forces for the damage they have done to news & the nation? 1/

What would it mean to shun Murdoch's Fox from journalism? First, we need to draw up an indictment for its crimes & their damage; media must report on media. Then shouldn't we refuse them a seat in every respectable news group, starting with the @RTDNA (née RTNDA) & @ONA? 2/

Respectable news organizations and their journalists should refuse to appear on Fox. (I turned them down not long ago.) J-schools should teach lapses of journalistic ethics & quality and start with receipts from Fox as case studies. 3/

It's good that journalists counted Trump's lies. (Thank you, @ddale8, @washingtonpost.) We should count Fox's. I've long argued that mainstream media should report what Fox does & does not tell its audience. It is an actor in our political story & should be covered as such. 4/

Fox is on my screen today, once again trying to gin up fear around caravans of brown people at the border, continue its racist attack on the 1619 project, attack tech and media over Trump. We've seen this racist script again & again & again. When will we act? 5/

Can we at least admit the irony -- nay, hypocrisy -- that we in journalism insist Facebook and Twitter clean their houses but we cower from cleaning ours? What are our standards? Where is our line if not at Fox? 5/

I repeat what I told @BBCRosAtkins on the BBC: Rupert Murdoch is the single most malign force in democracy in the English-speaking world. We know that. Yet we do nothing about it. It is time to report. It is time to shun the devil. 6/ https://twitter.com/bbcrosatkins/status/1348973057923309570