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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWashPo’s Obvious Bias: 16 Negative Stories About Bernie Sanders Published Over 16 Hours
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/washpos_obvious_bias_16_negative_stories_about_bernie_sanders_20160308
The progressive media watchdog FAIR counted as the Washington Post reached what the group is saying has to be some kind of record by posting an onslaught of articles attacking the Vermont senator.
From FAIR:
In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday, March 7a window that includes the crucial Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, and the next mornings spin ...
All of these posts paint his candidacy in a negative light, mainly by advancing the narrative that hes a clueless white man incapable of winning over people of color or speaking to women. Even the one article about Sanders beating Trump implies this is somehow a surprisedespite the fact that Sanders consistently out-polls Hillary Clinton against the New York businessman. ... The Washington Post was sold in 2013 to libertarian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is worth approximately $49.8 billion.
Despite being ideologically opposed to the Democratic Party (at least in principle), Bezos has enjoyed friendly ties with both the Obama administration and the CIA. As Michael Oman-Reagan notes, Amazon was awarded a $16.5 million contract with the State Department the last year Clinton ran it. Amazon also has over $600 million in contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization Sanders said he wanted to abolish in 1974, and still says he had a lot of problems with. FAIR has previously criticized the Washington Post for failing to disclose, when reporting on tech giant Uber, that Bezos also owns more than $1 billion in Uber stock.
For those of you whod like a refresher on what The Intercepts Glenn Greenwald called the 7 Stages of Establishment Backlash click here.
Its probably safe to say U.S. media is now somewhere between stages 6 and 7 on that scale, which Greenwald describes as:
STAGE 6: Issuance of grave and hysterical warnings about the pending apocalypse if the establishment candidate is rejected, as the possibility of losing becomes imminent (you are destined for decades, perhaps even generations, of powerlessness if you disobey our decrees about who to select).
STAGE 7: Full-scale and unrestrained meltdown, panic, lashing-out, threats, recriminations, self-important foot-stomping, overt union with the Right, complete fury (I can no longer in good conscience support this party of misfits, terrorist-lovers, communists, and heathens).
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WashPo’s Obvious Bias: 16 Negative Stories About Bernie Sanders Published Over 16 Hours (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2016
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Has Capehart ever apologized or retracted their swift boat hit piece on Bernie from the Post?
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
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EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)2. Has Capehart ever apologized or retracted their swift boat hit piece on Bernie from the Post?