2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAll Three Networks Ignored Bernie Sanders' Speech
Terrible. This is what we are up against.
Fox News, CNN and MSNBC all declined to carry Sanders' speech, instead offering punditry about the evening, with the chyrons promising, "AWAITING TRUMP" and "STANDING BY FOR TRUMP."
Hillary Clinton last week got similarly dissed by the networks in favor of Trump.
Earlier Tuesday, The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone reported that the media have collectively given Trump some $2 billion worth of free air time.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/all-three-networks-ignored-bernie-sanders-speech-tuesday-night-promising-trump-would-be-speaking-soon_us_56e8bad1e4b0860f99daec81?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)I think he has more than Kasich.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Sanders lost Ohio with 513,549 Votes. Not that it goes directly to what you are saying. It just seems to make sense in their coverage that night.
Sanders went 0-5. I don't see the issue here. I did take issue earlier in the primary when they pulled away from Sanders victory speech to show Trump. Not so much with this one.
It's simply understandable they focused on Trump, Kasich, and Clinton(who won the night by going 5-0).
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Here's how much of the nation's press were magically transformed from watchdogs into lapdogs:
The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto)
The Powell Memo was first published August 23, 1971
Introduction
In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powells nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powells legal objectivity. [font color="green"]Anderson cautioned that Powell might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice in behalf of business interests.[/font color]
Though Powells memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administrations hands-off business philosophy.
Most notable about these institutions was their focus on education, shifting values, and movement-building a focus we share, though often with sharply contrasting goals.* (See our endnote for more on this.)
So did Powells political views influence his judicial decisions? The evidence is mixed. [font color="green"]Powell did embrace expansion of corporate privilege and wrote the majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment right for corporations to influence ballot questions.[/font color] On social issues, he was a moderate, whose votes often surprised his backers.
CONTINUED...
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
Imagine what Bernie could do with the $2 Billion in free publicity given Trump?
Happenstance24
(193 posts)First thing to go in a campaign that is nearing its end is the media following said campaign.
jillan
(39,451 posts)now?
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)And boom.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)many self serving conflicts of interest.
Thanks for the thread, SHRED.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I don't get the clamor over this. I called bullshit the night they pulled away from Sanders speech after his win. Not so much here.