2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBlackout Tuesday: Bernie Sanders' Speech Last Night Ignored by MSM
The problem? No cable or major news channel ran the speech. Not all of it. Not even some of it.
As Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grimspecifically pointing at how cable news channels CNN, Fox, and MSNBC didn't air the speech because they were "waiting" for Republican frontrunner Donald Trumpquipped, "There just isn't enough time in the evening to get all that analysis in.".......
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/16/blackout-tuesday-bernie-sanders-speech-corporate-media-chose-not-air
valerief
(53,235 posts)he gets!
mooseprime
(474 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)If Bernie had gotten the DNC support and MSM coverage of Hillary, he'd be walking away with it, hands down. Even with the lack of name recognition and the immense power and wealth difference.
He has come amazingly far in a very short time. So many of the races have been virtual ties, and he's had some huge wins.
He obviously has a hell of a lot going for him to do so well on such a slanted playing field.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Media does this country a huge disservice. Keeping Americans dumber one program at a time and Americans who willingly choose to remain ignorant by not questioning everything.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)He has the same speech every time. Bankers, billionaires, oligarchs, 1%, plutocrats and wall street. Then promises of free stuff that he can't deliver.
Even I could give his speech. 80% of Americans can recite it without notes.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)might be beneficial to you and your cause?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Judge by the evidence.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)So it goes.
Trump may be repetitious, but there is some comedy value there.