Donald Trump has changed journalism forever.

His Press Secretary Sean Spicer lied about the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd in his first ever press conference. Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway has blown up journalism with her term “alternative facts” while warning America about another “Bowling Green” terrorist “massacre”—even though it never actually happened.

The sad thing is, Spicer and Conway’s strategy is working. They know they’re telling lies—their goal is to change the channel. Get us talking about their preposterous claims rather than the dangerous, racist policies Trump and Steve Bannon are busy implementing.

We need a media that won’t fall for this circus. Sure, Spicer and Conway’s antics make great clickbait, but it’s terrible for democracy. Join us as we demand a fourth estate that will not only call out Trump &Co on his lies, but pay attention to the policies that are changing this country for the worse.

Will you ask the mainstream media to correct Trump’s lies and focus on the stories that matter?

Don’t get us wrong: it’s important to hold Spicer accountable when he lies about crowd size or whether or not Trump’s Muslim ban is actually a “ban” or not—even though that’s exactly what the president calls it. But it’s absolutely critical to dig deep into the stories Spicer and Conway aren’t talking about: the Dakota Access Pipeline, the massive, grassroots resistance to the Muslim Ban and all the people who are that much more vulnerable now that Trump and Bannon are engineering their white nationalist fantasies.

It’s easier than you think: Stop covering Spicer’s rants and falsehoods live. Stop giving Conway another opportunity to spread her deliberate lies. Start talking to the Water Defenders at Standing Rock, to NY Taxi drivers putting their livelihoods on the line for immigrants, to the women all over the world who will be affected by losing global abortion funding because of Trump’s executive orders. It’s a new world out there. We need a free press that’s up to the challenge.

Tell corporate journalism this is not a drill. Stop covering the Trump circus and start covering the stories that matter.

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