Can you imagine where Bernie would be if the media had covered him like they have Trump and Clinton?

[Paper Roses]

The whole primary season has been a media block-out for the Sanders campaign. I watch, listened, read. The media bias is so obvious it is pathetic.
I will not give up on Senator Sanders. I can only hope that the media will be more open to all candidates. Not likely but I can hope.

If the coverage had been equal, I believe strongly that the results of yesterdays primaries would have been very different.

[riversedge]

1. Probably in the dustbin of HIStoy last summer already. IMHO

Jesse Lehrich
‏@JesseLehrich

.@HillaryClinton now up 300+ pledged delegates & 2.5 million+ votes.
#ImWithHer #ShesWithUs

[sufrommich]

2. If they covered him as negatively as they covered Clinton,he'd be

back in Vermont playing with his grandkids.

[NurseJackie]

6. This! (Thank you!)

[LeFleur1]

10. Absolutely! NM

[RKP5637]

3. Media is the US is like Joseph Goebbels in Germany. It's a 7x24 hr propaganda machine. n/t

[kennetha]

4. even further behind?

Look, Bernie got plenty of coverage, most of it fawning, very little of it critical. It helped to fuel his rise. When people started taking a closer, harder look he looked like a more, shall we say, complicated figure.

He got more debates at his own insistence, lots of town halls, he did pretty well. Clinton just did better.

Somehow Sanders supporters can't seem to accept the fact that actual real live voters looked over Sanders and Clinton and found pretty steadily and pretty wide margins often that they on balance prefer Clinton to Sanders.

Not that Sanders doesn't have his supporters or doesn't have an audience for his brand of politics. But not everybody is as taken with him as either he himself is or his many swooning supporters are.

[RKP5637]

7. The way I look at this is no president is ever perfect. I like Bernie, but I'm also OK with

Hillary. The goal should be, bottom line, to make sure of a democratic win in 2016. If not, this country going to descend into hell for the majority of us.

[Jenny_92808]

5. I have learned and I suspect many others have learned

which channels they cannot trust and will boycott.

[NCTraveler]

8. The media has treated Clinton and Sanders like shit.

It's how they treat democrats and is how they have for decades. Claiming they treat Clinton with some benefit is garbage.

[NurseJackie]

9. Oh, please! GMAFB!!

Bernie was treated like delicate porcelain. Only recently did the media start giving him scrutiny, and boy did we hear the HOWLS of complaints here! (Even "hourly" reports of the total number of "negative" stories published in a 24-hour period.)

He'd have NEVER gotten as far as he did if he hadn't been "ignored" (as you suggest). Face it ... he coasted along for as long as he could.

If the coverage had been equal, I believe strongly that the results of yesterdays primaries would have been very different.

"Equal" you say? If Bernie's coverage had been "equal" in continuous non-stop negativity as what Hillary had received, he'd have never made it beyond New Hampshire.

Keep in mind that Hillary's current poll numbers AND her current delegate counts AND her current endorsements are ALL INCLUSIVE of the continuous attacks on her!

She's doing find and AHEAD OF THE PACK in spite of the constant attacks and smears and lies and innuendo.

Now, if Bernie can't win a primary with those kinds of odds in his favor, then there's NO WAY he could ever hope to win a national election.

He did good, but not THAT good.

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. Give my regards to everyone in the goatee universe when you head home.

And thanks for the chuckles...

[litlbilly]

11. When you look at who is against Bernie, the media, the fossil fuel industry, the MIC, the Koch's,

the Hillary hit machine, the DNC, etc, etc, we/Bernie are doing incredible things and we cannot give up.
Yes all the dems have to come together in the end, but, this is a movement like Bernie said, it's not about him.
We have to push twice as hard and I think we will gain the hearts and minds of the people. If we don't, then we will become the idiocracy society. We cannot allow that to happen. If we weren't feeling down, I would be worried.

[Octafish]

12. Tuesday Nights are Trump Night

Bernie's too close to talk about.

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. Runaway leader, obviously.

But the corporate press has been all-in for the corporate candidate the whole time...

[DanTex]

15. You mean if they obsessed for months about a witch hunt regarding his emails?

[Jitter65]

16. If he were covered like they cover Clinton he would be less known except for trying to

make him a criminal. He has had more coverage than Hillary. Check it out.

[GreatGazoo]

17. How

Sanders is beating $1 billion TV coverage gap


http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280153393

[FlatBaroque]

18. The mainstream media's primary objective is to MISINFORM and MANIPULATE

You will note that the giant media corporations are giving money to one of the Democratic candidates.