Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumStudy: Sanders supporters are least likely to watch cable news
About 85 percent of those who identified at Sanders supporters in the Katz Media/Nielsen Scarborough Research Panel study said they watched cable TV in general (both entertainment and news channels), compared with 87 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters. For Marco Rubio, 92 percent of his supporters cited cable television the highest among decided voters whereas 89 percent of Donald Trump supporters used cable. Only 32 percent of Sanders supporters said they watch any of the cable news channels. Rubio supporters were most likely to watch cable news with 59 percent saying they do so.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/03/study-sanders-supporters-are-least-likely-to-watch-cable-220172#ixzz41rXK82cv
Not sure if this has been posted here or not. I just found it and thought I would share.
thereismore
(13,326 posts)PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)game to GOTV is anything like as effective as it seemed to be in Colorado, he will end up winning this thing.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)it just left such a bad taste in my mouth. Now I'm so glad that I did if for no other reason than my blood pressure.
Donkees
(31,514 posts)OZi
(155 posts)I have a Roku and check out CBS and ABC news on there every once in a while. Anymore, I end up hitting the 'Back' button in under a minute.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)If you want to know what's going on in your neighborhood you have to talk to your neighbors. If you want to know whats going on in the rest of your area you talk to coworkers and well people on the street. If you want to know whats going on in your state you are probably SOL unless you are involved in some kind of state organization. National news is only what the PTB wants us to know.
OZi
(155 posts)And how they choose to frame it.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Remember back in 1984 when Apple Computers ran that ad for their new Macintosh computer using an Olympic athlete to throw a hammer through the huge tv screen of the character from the movie "1984" telling the audience how to act?
And then in 2007, someone stole that idea --- and they replaced that talking head character from 1984 with Hillary to use as a political ad.
That was the beginning of the end for Hillary's campaign in 2008, right then and there!!
I don't know who did that ad.
But, it generated more interest in the Democratic primaries a whole 6 months before the first primary than I had ever seen before.
This time, this year, they tried to crown Hillary 6 months before the first primary!!!!!
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)And the 2007 ad wish that was running because that is exactly how I feel.
TheProgressive
(1,656 posts)I do not watch CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, or CBS news at all...
OZi
(155 posts)not the public.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)when I can see all the opinions in the world, real and affected, on DU each day.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)We refuse to be spoon fed party propaganda ...
And, after this primary season, it should be obvious to everybody - news is manipulated to create false scenarios for the purpose of political deception ...
This election cycle is the WORST most blatant news rigging I have ever seen ...
OZi
(155 posts)It's never been as blatantly obvious as it is to me now.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Al Jazeera America (but THAT's being canabalized in a month)
BBC (weekend round table discussions of international affairs are usually good)
I don't know WHAT I'll do after Al Jazeera's gone.
I READ ONLINE MOSTLY, whilst checking in with other shows such as Democracy Now! (also a cable show, but not within my FiOs choices, RT and other progressive shows.
Reading:
The Guardian
The Intercept
Asia Times Online
I think that's a hell of a lot better than MSfuckingNBC, CNN, and the networks are UNWATCHABLE!
OZi
(155 posts)I have FreeSpeechTV on the Roku. It has videos of The Thom Hartmann Program and Democracy Now!
I watch The Big Picture on Youtube. I'll have to see if I can find videos of these BBC round tables.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)It's actually on regular BBC cable 9:30 AM Eastern on Saturdays, Ozi.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)demographics that the MSM is so obsessed with (race and gender).
And it shows both the power of cable news AND its increasing limitations as the two youngest generations shun its yoke.
Analysis of exit polling data:
I wonder if were not about to see something similarif not quite as dramaticwith non-white voters. The cross-cutting factor here is not only ageBruenig has also shown that younger black voters are trending toward Bernie (see the graph at the bottom of this post), and even in South Carolina, Sanders did much better with younger black voters than he did with older black votersbut also region.
http://coreyrobin.com/2016/03/02/super-tuesday-march-theses/
So perhaps the opportunity for the Sanders campaign and supporters is to reach out to the people we each know who get >80% of their information from cable TV. Let them know about the holes in the superdelegate narrative that is being pushed.
This is actually a very tight race now. In some sense it has been Bernie Sanders race all along since Clinton has such high negatives and he doesn't. The era of transparency is dawning and the Clintons just aren't ready for it.
I worry about net neutrality all the time. Consolidation of power and narrowing the narrative seem to go hand in hand.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)OZi
(155 posts)I like to think I'm pretty good at typing, but she stood at a podium and said all that to a crowd of people.
So much insight and powerful quotes from someone younger than me. Gives me hope.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)to get a choke hold on social media and political discussion boards.
EmperorHasNoClothes
(4,797 posts)It IS the closest thing to news on TV, after all. I stopped watching cable news after they booted KO
OZi
(155 posts)was to point out ways the media was failing people. People mistake it for making fun of politicians.
"These people are running our country. This is important to everybody. We're a comedy show and even we see a story here. You guys in the media need to step up your game;" Is how I would summarize it.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Seriously, we tend to get our news from a variety of online sources, research the bias of the author and the media outlet, research the info in the story and then determine whether it's factual.
OZi
(155 posts)That guy on the TV with perfect hair and his shoulders squared a certain way wouldn't be lying to me would he? It's only the commercials that are trying to sell me stuff isn't?
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)We stream movies and a few tv shows, YouTube and twitch. Been this way for about 9 years.
OZi
(155 posts)I have it on Roku too though. Plus Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, TYT and some weather channels. I also have a channel called The Bat Player that lets me steam radio if I can find their stream info.
I just got The Martian and disc 2 of Wayward Pines in the mail.
olddots
(10,237 posts)The trouble with most media is that it can only survive by suplying controversy . Pacifica Radio has been in a constant state of turmoil for years . AIR America was destined to fail and died sadly , what do we do ?
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)Corrupt corporate owned MSM is propaganda TeeVee and completely useless to anyone with a brain and the ability to think for themselves.
Internet sources are much, much more accurate.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Believing it's another story.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)...and am a Senator Sanders supporter.