Bernie Sanders on Corporate Media Failures: “Campaigns Are Not A Game”

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http://trofire.com/2016/03/22/bernie-sanders-enraged-media/


"During an interview on Tuesday morning with MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes, Senator Bernie Sanders discussed many different topics, but the one issue he seemed most passionate about came at the end of the interview when Hayes asked Sanders what one question he wished that the media would ask more often.

Sanders declined to offer one specific question, instead criticizing the way that media treats the political race as a game rather than a very serious decision to be made about the future of America and its people.

“For the media, 90 percent of the coverage is process, is soap opera, is polls, is raising money … Yesterday a woman comes up to me with tears in her eyes: “Bernie, I am working 60 hours a week. I’m not making any money and I don’t have time to spend with my daughter. Listen to the kids who leave school 50 or 60,000 dollars in debt. Talk to the people who have no health insurance and what that means to their life.”

“I’m running for president of the United States because we have a disappearing middle class, we’ve got 47 million people living in poverty. The amount of time that media pays to those issues is minimal. I think that is my critique, Chris. The media has got to look at the pain in America today and then look at how the candidates are responding to that pain. Campaigns and elections are not a game. They’re not a game. They are about trying to change America."

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[Art_from_Ark]

1. Bernie needs to be our next President

[ladjf]

2. Bernie is going easy on the media by not pointing out that they are willfully

trying to manipulate the outcome. Perhaps he thinks it's better not to go there at this time.

[Rebkeh]

3. Glad to hear this

There's a Panem quality to the mainstream media, it irritates me to no end.

[Dragonfli]

4. This is not a game, and suffering, hopeless people are not footballs

....They make many assumptions from ivory towers of middle class or wealth with little awareness it would seem of those that are lower middle class (quickly falling into poverty even tho they work harder with multiple McJobs than they did before lower middle class meant poverty).

As to the poor - they seem completely oblivious to them and convince themselves that welfare reform didn't harm anybody, I know Hill and Bill believe this, but it did and does to this day I assure you, it was not a pragmatic solution to a "welfare queen" problem handled well because a Democrat helped to all but destroy it. It will not be a brave pragmatic solution to "earned benefit queens" they will likely label SS beneficiaries, as they collude yet again with republicans to begin to shred these last vestiges of the new deal and great society.

They cause the poor to become poorer still while so many in the party applaud the politicians responsible. Their applause and support are what make them just as responsible as their political idols.

They think this is a game, or a sport with my team and their team, not realizing or caring that the ball that is tossed around in this sport is a child that only gets to eat at school and will soon lose that food, or the ball is an elderly widow or widower that can only afford to take their medicine every other day or maybe will freeze to death in a small flat during a winter they could not pay their gas bill (this happens ALREADY where I live).

There are many other balls tossed around for their sport and amusement, too many to list them all here, some are dead or dying, some are living under a tarp in a vacant lot hoping the cops don't roust them or the suburban teenagers don't decide to slum it and amuse themselves by assaulting them while laughing and taunting the "bum" for cell phone footage. Some of these comfortable people give advice to "the poor that in fact do OK" as a famous DLC Democrat once said. One of the Conservative DU posters once even suggested dumpster diving as a viable and reasonable option.

Too many of them applaud policies and politicians that make all these problems worse, they need to get it through their heads, many are dying and more will die of poverty, this is no game.....

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[EdwardBernays]

5. Playing the game

is a standard defense from Clintonites for their candidates gross behaviour