Bernie Bias: The Mainstream Media Undermines Sanders at Every Turn

[leftcoastmountains]

Good article

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-bias-mainstream-media-undermines-sanders-every-turn

[merrily]

1. WOW! This article is amazing. READ IT, READ IT. Great find!

Thank you, leftcoast mountains, thank you, Rima Regas, thank you alternet.

Get this all the exposure you can, please--facebook, tweet, etc. All the relevant buttons are at the link

[merrily]

6. Kicking this thread about a GREAT article.

[rhett o rick]

2. The hell with Corp-Media, subscribe to Live.Bernie2016.tv.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251568293

[leftcoastmountains]

4. I went to subscribe (but google wants you first to sign up with them!)

So I'm still debating that one. I have never subscribed to anything. Call me
paranoid or tin foil hat crazy, it just gives me the creeps.

[rhett o rick]

5. I didn't know you had to subscribe via google. I have a gmail acct so I had no problem. nm

[global1]

3. This Just Means We'll Have To Double Down And Work Harder For Bernie......

we need to continue to use 'social media' to his advantage and keep turning out the crowds for his speeches. When he wins both New Hampshire and Iowa primaries - the Right Steam Media that's in the pocket of the corporations and the 1% - will no longer be able to ignore Bernie.

We'll need to keep those campaign contributions coming as well. Word is spreading and everyday I get more and more great comments from people that see me in my Bernie t-shirt.

Go Bernie!!!!! Feel the Bern!!!!!!

[merrily]

7. BINGO.

[Enthusiast]

8. K&R! Some of the comments on Alternet are from professional sockpuppets.

I'm just saying.

[merrily]

9. Let's face it. Some of the comments anywhere on the net are from professional sock puppets.

[Enthusiast]

10. This is true.

[Eleanors38]

11. The columnist's last questions were fundamental before Bernie announced.

MSM is in precipitous decline, and revealing a strong corporate-establishment bent, but this has been the case for somentime. The old mass media model, for better or worse, formed a townhall approach for a big, complex society like ours; our own Revolution was entwined with the speediest Mass Media of the day. But in our lifetimes we are watching its collapse, and there is no longer a legitimizing force to set agendas and to maintain a mythology. One can manipulate the public every which way but loose, everyday on any issue or non-issue.

Cynicism has always been the cheap seat express to worldly knowledge and outlook; you can't pull anything on me, bub, I have the latest acronymed sayings on the innertubes, and I can match anything you say. As yet, NO ONE can deal with this MSM collapse, and NO ONE has come up with a cohesive, recognized replacement because that Mass and legitimizing function of MSM and the institutions who depended on them is no longer a major force. One cannot avoid circularity when looking at the problem because no one has found a substitute for the mass model.

As I have said for some years, now, the "movement" centered on a candidate like Sanders, or a takeover of the Democratic Party, or the creation of another party, or an OWS-type rebellion WILL, if it is to be successful, have to simultaneously solve the questions posed by the columnist as well as win an election. It's all different, now, and the problems involve not just tech style, but the whole notion of social identity and whether or not we have one.