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42. Yes. Bernie got a lot of press coverage. And unlike Hillary's, largely positive.

Bernie Sanders wins most network air time since New Hampshire

By Tom Kludt February 17, 2016: 12:18 PM ET

Bernie Sanders has done what many political experts deemed impossible: He's turned the Democratic presidential nomination into a real race.

Now he's getting something that also once felt out of reach: News coverage.

Last week, on the heels of his emphatic win in the New Hampshire primary, Sanders drew more coverage from the network evening newscasts than any other presidential campaign in either party, according to new data analysis from Andrew Tyndall.

Tyndall, the author of the Tyndall Report, monitors news content across CBS, NBC and ABC. His latest research found that the nightly news broadcasts on those three networks gave a total of 11 minutes of coverage to Sanders from February 8-12.

That was more than the amount of coverage given to Hillary Clinton (eight minutes), Donald Trump (seven minutes) and Marco Rubio (five minutes). It was also the first week in the current election cycle that network news coverage of Sanders outpaced any other presidential candidate.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/media/bernie-sanders-nightly-news-coverage/index.html

And all that air time Hillary got was all deeply negative, so hardly an advantage.

Of course, the coverage of Bernie waned as his campaign waned. It was clear, by March 1, 2016 ("Super Tuesday" ), that he had no chance to win. Not sure why you think the major networks should have dropped everything to air a Bernie Sanders speech in mid-March, 2016.