2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumScott Pelley (CBS) says the DEM race is between Clinton and Biden.
Whole segment on the Evening News. No mention of anyone else.
"You know, Eve. Sometimes I think you *keep* things from me."
(All About Eve, 1950; MGM)
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)And when he wins Iowa and NH a LOT of primary voters gonna notice, despite media blackout.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)morning saying he had 20,000 at a rally this weekend. I thought that was unusual until they said they weren't going to talk about Hillary.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)they don't have one.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts).... campaign doesn't portend a limitless deluge of dark money $$$ bucks funding a tsunami of idiotic "vote for me 'cause I'm swell'" ad-buys that CBS hopes will run in the fall.
No reflection on the other two. ( Clinton and Biden) They can run their own campaigns as they see fit. ( Yes. I'm kidding.)
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Jebby Boy. CBS knows damn well Mr. Sanders will not be carrying water for the likes of Sumner Redstone who is the CEO of and principle owner of CBS.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)and ..............he would do that..He is not a journalist by any minor imaginable definition..
He would not have made it past the mail room back in the days of Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather.
He started on 60 minutes as a yes man and apparently he's still is just that.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Response to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)
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rurallib
(62,414 posts)Heard that in some discussions on how bad 60 minutes is these days.
When I watch news it is usually Amy Goodman, Steph Miller or Hartmann on FSTV
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>When I watch news it is usually Amy Goodman, Steph Miller or Hartmann on FSTV>>>>
Matariki
(18,775 posts)to deliberately ignore any opposition and protests against the corporate status quo. It was a concerted decision made - and you can see how it's been implemented in every progressive turnout since 1999. Think how little coverage the Occupy movement got in spite of how large the turnouts were.
Those who have instigated this strategy might think it's effective but in the end it will prove to just be their heads in the sand.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Embarrassed to say... I wasn't paying close attention at that time.
Seemed to me that Clinton, Gore, etc. were so much preferable to the "barbarians at the gate", ( Gingrich, Bush, etc.) that I tended to dismiss such observations as left-wing paranoia.
Not any more.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Joe Biden 18 %
Bernie Sanders 11 %