Democratic Primaries
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Employees of the Post were put out by Sanderss comments. They insisted they hold no ill will against him for regularly bashing the man who writes their checks as one of earths most obnoxious plutocrats, and moreover that Sanders is wrong to make the media a boogeyman the way hes turned billionaires and corporations into boogeymen. This doesnt add up, noted the Post, going so far as to put the term corporate media in quotation marks, as if it were a mythical creature.
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The Post in 2017 asked readers how Democrats would cope with the Kremlin backing Bernie Sanders with dirty tricks in 2020. In April of this year it described the Sanders campaign as a Russian plot to help elect Donald Trump. Theyve run multiple stories about his $575,000 lake house, ripping his socialist hankering for real estate. From each according to his ability, the paper quipped, to each according to his need for lakefront property
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The news media is now loathed in the same way banks, tobacco companies, and health insurance companies are, and it refuses to understand this. Mistakes like WMDs are a problem, but the medias biggest issue is exactly its bubble-ness, and clubby inability to respond to criticism in any way except to denounce it as misinformation and error. Equating all criticism of media with Trumpism is pouring gasoline on the fire.
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In sum: a $10 million per year anchor for a Comcast subsidiary brings on employees of Bezos and Rupert Murdoch to ask if the press has a problem covering billionaires and concludes it does not. They confirm the point using a tweet as the modern equivalent of a man on the street quote, itself an easily-manipulated device (you can keep asking men on the street questions until you get the answer you want), but at least it requires human interaction. Thats circling wagons, not testing hypotheses.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/bernie-sanders-washington-post-media-complaint-872349/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)When Biden touched a shoulder it didn't work.
When Biden simply misspoke, it didn't work.
When Bernie blames the media for the poor performance of his campaign, it won't work either... the result will be little more than just a series of posts that will putter out after a few days when the meter illustrates the right Appropriate Righteous Rage will not be met.
Then it's on the the next excuse for his steady decline in the polls.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)I have feeling many will change their minds about polls, if they turn against Joe.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)...their preferred candidate will be subject to implicit media-bias. In one form or another.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,382 posts).... gaffe coverage.
Maybe I dreamed it.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)EVERY candidate is looked at critically. Those that don't particularly like what they see and hear blame it on the press. To be honest, much of the reporting we've seen about all the candidates has been reasonably accurate. Sure, some is going to be exaggerated or not 100% accurate, but they're not zeroing in on one of 20+ candidates for some imagined reason.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)The public is not stupid. It sees that companies like CNN and NBC are billion-dollar properties, pushing shows anchored by big-city millionaires. A Vanderbilt like Anderson Cooper or a half-wit legacy pledge like Chris Cuomo shoveling coal for Comcast, Amazon, AT&T, or Rupert Murdoch is the standard setup.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Uncle Joe
(58,651 posts)Anderson Cooper actually had an excellent interview with Bernie and then afterwards one with Stephen Colbert.
Bernie was quite clear and explicit in explaining his point of view regarding the corporate media conglomerates their corporate ownership including CNN, WAPO, ABC and the industry in general, its' consolidation and how that affects coverage.
Capped off with Bernie's condemnation of Trump's language against the media "fake news" and "enemy of the people" as being "disgusting."
I have been googling for that interview but can only find Anderson's segment with Colbert?
If anyone else can find it, the interview is well worth viewing.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)The reason I'm leaning towards Bernie is that he is clear and quick. He never leaves me wondering where he stands on any issue!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Uncle Joe
(58,651 posts)Anderson interviewed Colbert after Bernie and that video is easy to find ever since this morning.
I find it odd that the interview with a major Presidential candidate still hasn't been posted on the Internet.
Maybe tomorrow?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)Well done highlighting it.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
brooklynite
(95,173 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)Don't forget '16!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)....except create more division? The answer is no. All this bashing is going to do is create even more "negative" press from the so-called millionaire media.
He should start getting into the details of his proposals and present them to Democrats and the American people. THAT is what we're all looking for, not continued (and in many cases false) criticism of the big bad media.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)Because of what they did to Hillary in '16.
I'll never forget "her emails". I hope all our Dems remember. It is critical this election.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)Sanders barely lifted a finger for Clinton. He sure didn't rail against the media for her daily. He is taking part is a blatantly selfish act.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)...who the is "one of our own"????
Because I can tell you clearly; I belong to no one, and neither does anyone here on DU!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
crazytown
(7,277 posts)had the unimpeachable ethics of David Sirota.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)...BS' followers to dox someone who dared to have a difference of opinion from BS.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
crazytown
(7,277 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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mathematic
(1,442 posts)He fundamentally misunderstands the world around him and anybody that is convinced by his analysis is equally poorly informed.
Just this march he spun the russia investigation as overblown media hype that is devastating to the media's credibility.
He transparently and desperately wants to blame hillary's loss on hillary's politics, which aren't anti-establishment enough for him, instead of on the rise of (anti-establishment) white supremacy, decades of voter suppression, and foreign russian interference.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)Reporting on one percent earners.
There. Corrected it for you. So the complaint now is that ten percenters are commenting on Sanders, a one percent earner.
Two national politicians are going after the press relentlessly. It is the cornerstone of authoritarian populism.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(146,209 posts)Senator Warren has just as liberal or even more liberal platform compared to sanders and she is not being hurt in the polls or getting bad press coverage
Link to tweet
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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