Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumReich calls out media for slanted, de minimis coverage of enthusiasm for Bernie
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The media are pumping up Trump and playing down Bernie.
Data provided by Google to the journalism site FiveThirtyEight found that 46 percent of the media coverage over the last month about the GOP candidates was about Trump. Between June 14 and July 12, Trump got more coverage than the combined total of Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio, generally considered the leading GOP candidates.
Meanwhile, the media is barely covering the huge enthusiasm Bernie Sanders has been generating and when it does, it describes the surge solely through the prism of Hillary rather than as a response to what Sanders is saying. The New York Times is hardly mentioning Bernie at all (its front-page story today is about Hillary's father).
Why is the media giving Trump so much attention and Sanders so little?
His comment then links to Alternet's "Why Is the NY Times Basically Doing a Blackout on Bernie Sanders? The New York Times' Sanders coverage is intellectually dishonest." article.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/why-ny-times-basically-doing-blackout-bernie-sanders
99th Monkey has started a thread on this Alternet article in the Sanders group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128028276
It's a long, detailed article excoriating the Times for intellectually dishonest coverage rising to the level of journalistic malpractice. Give it a read.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)It undermined our position. Actually, since then, our position is seldom heard. Right wing talking points remain unchallenged. We see it every day. It is horrible and it compromised our democracy.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)At least in the MSM.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)I'm sure Bernie understands this - that is why grassroots organizing is critical and not optional for our efforts.
It sucks - but not much 'every/wo/man' can do about it except counter it by chatting Bernie's positions, character, and honesty at the water cooler, backyard fence, grocery store line and local watering hole.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Show me someone who cares about all lives and I'll show you someone without a 401k.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)"The public relations industry, which essentially runs the elections, is applying certain principles to undermine democracy which are the same as the principles that applies to undermine markets. The last thing that business wants is markets in the sense of economic theory. Take a course in economics, they tell you a market is based on informed consumers making rational choices. Anyone whos ever looked at a TV ad knows thats not true. In fact if we had a market system an ad say for General Motors would be a brief statement of the characteristics of the products for next year. Thats not what you see. You see some movie actress or a football hero or somebody driving a car up a mountain or something like that. And thats true of all advertising. The goal is to undermine markets by creating uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices and the business world spends huge efforts on that. The same is true when the same industry, the PR industry, turns to undermining democracy. It wants to construct elections in which uninformed voters will make irrational choices. Its pretty reasonable and its so evident you can hardly miss it."
From lecture titled"The State-Corporate Complex:A Threat to Freedom and Survival," at the The University of Toronto, April 7, 2011
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)who is against their best interest. Just ask Howard Dean after he threatened to break them up.