Why Isn't the Media Feeling the Bern

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Jim Hightower

....Take Bernie Sanders, who’s stunning the political establishment with a fiery populist campaign that’s drawing record crowds. Indeed, Sanders’ upstart campaign is commanding a comparable share of support within the Democratic Party’s voting base to what Trump is enjoying from the Republican electorate.

And — get this — polls also show Bernie trouncing The Donald if they face each other in November’s presidential showdown. So surely he’s getting a proportional level of media coverage by the networks on our public airwaves, right?

Ha, just kidding! The big networks’ devotion of 234 minutes to all-things-Trump was “balanced” by less than 10 minutes for Sanders. Most egregious was ABC, the Disney-owned network. ABC’s World News Tonight awarded 81 minutes of national showtime to Trump last year — and for Bernie: 20 seconds.

How self-serving of the media moguls. The one candidate who is effectively rallying large numbers of voters to oppose the rise of corporate oligarchy — including in the media — has the plug pulled on him....

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43844.htm

[saltpoint]

1. The media don't want to cover a campaign

that represents the possibility that more people will discuss issues that impact the lives of day-to-day working people.

The media are interested in deflecting those concerns. More specifically, the corporate interests who own the media are intent on pretending that those concerns are non-issues.

To the people about whom Sanders is speaking, they are way more than issues. They are elements of survival in an economy tilted against their well-being.

[daleanime]

2. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[rurallib]

3. you may be a couple of $s short there

but definitely the right answer

[DJ13]

4. The MSM's treatment of Bernie is uncovering how truly corrupt our system has become

I think its backfiring on the MSM as the voters see the crowds Bernie garners (especially compared to either Trump or Clinton), then see how the "news" refuses to talk about him, and they see whats going on.

[PSPS]

5. Five very rich people own virtually all media in the US.

[Proserpina]

6. Upton Sinclair's memoir says it best

I used to say to our audiences:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6; repr.

[Nitram]

7. Because Bernie promises a lot that no one thinks he can deliver.

It's not complicated.

[SmittynMo]

8. Nothing he is fighting for is radical, nor difficult.

The Corrupt Corporate Media has spoken.

It's pretty obvious the 6 media owners want nothing to do with Bernie. Bernie and corporations are like oil and water.

So, how is their oligarchy to succeed if there is a road block out there? Their answer is to ignore the roadblock and hope it will go away, due to lack of exposure and concern. Well let me tell you, he is NOT going away. As indicated earlier, this move by the media is only going to make it quite obvious how crooked the media is. I personally hope it backfires on them, big time.

Meanwhile, back on the prairie,,,,,,,,,Nothing will stop Bernie, Nothing. He's in this to win. And win he will.

[yurbud]

9. the media's power is about to be broken