Jim Hightower: The Corporate Media Is Basically Pretending Bernie Sanders Doesn't Exist

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Polls show that Bernie Sanders would trounce Donald Trump, but you’d never know that from watching TV news.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/jim-hightower-corporate-media-basically-pretending-bernie-sanders-doesnt-exist

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The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, found that Trump is tromp, tromp, tromping over the airtime of everyone else.

From last January through November, these dominant flagship news shows devoted 234 minutes of prime-time coverage to the incessant chirping of the yellow-crested birdbrain, with no other contender getting even a fourth of that.

Take Bernie Sanders, who’s stunning the political establishment with a fiery populist campaign that’s drawing record crowds. Indeed, Sanders’ upstart campaign is commanding a comparable share of support within the Democratic Party’s voting base to what Trump is enjoying from the Republican electorate.

And — get this — polls also show Bernie trouncing The Donald if they face each other in November’s presidential showdown. So surely he’s getting a proportional level of media coverage by the networks on our public airwaves, right?

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[Scuba]

1. The corporate media is as relavent today as buggy whips.

[saltpoint]

2. The big corporations are interested in

profit. The tricks they need to pursue and maximize profit very often are subversive to ordinary people's citizenship in a Constitutional democracy.

Sanders' record clearly positions him on the side of the ordinary citizens. His public remarks over many years demonstrate that he knows the tricks the corporations use to frustrate citizenship.

So the media, overwhelmingly owned by corporate interests, is in no hurry to cover the Sanders campaign.

[MisterP]

6. nowadays profit doesn't come from selling product

[Duval]

7. You're right. Now it's "Infotainment", plus

they often present one side. We need to get back to "fair and balanced".

[SmittynMo]

3. The media

have indicated that they are not part of our democracy, in a true democratic society. I'm done with them.

According to them:

Fuck ""Fair" reporting!!! 90 to 1

Keep information from the masses. Omit his name in all instances

Fuck our democracy!!!! I control what you hear and see.


Yep. It's time for a revolution. And we don't need the store bought media to accomplish our goals.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Corporate Media's Game plan from the get go.

Eye Balls and Political Ad revenue. All about diverting attention away from the Country's real issues.

[Proserpina]

5. Corporate media go where the money is

And they don't see dollar bills falling out of Bernie's pockets in their direction...

so to them, he doesn't exist. Just like the rest of us don't exist, until we are shot by police or poisoned by some governmental or corporate wrong-doing.

They keep calling Bernie a "fringe" candidate, as if that were a rational description of his campaign. Well it is, if $$$ get the vote. But since it's still People, they will be unpleasantly surprised. It won't be much longer, either.

[SheilaT]

8. I wonder if they will keep on ignoring

Bernie if he wins a few primaries or caucuses? No doubt their coverage will be one of utter amazement that a total unknown (in their eyes) won, and they will continue to be dismissive of his campaign.

Because they so thoroughly ignore him, a lot of voters still don't really know he's there, but over and over again when people listen to his message they support him.

[tecelote]

9. She's their pick.

Clinton Foundation donors include dozens of media organizations, individuals
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-organizations-individuals-207228

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. And for some here, that's just fine.

[Enthusiast]

11. Kicked and recommended!