MEDIA WATCH: WHY IS MEDIA COVERING UP WHO WON DEMOCRATIC DEBATE, ACCORDING TO POLLS?

[AgingAmerican]

http://eastcountymagazine.org/media-watch-why-media-covering-who-won-democratic-debate-according-polls

October 15, 2015 (San Diego) – After the CNN-hosted Democratic presidential candidate debate Wednesday, all major polls--including CNN’s own poll--showed Bernie Sanders the winner by wide margins. Yet post-debate coverage by CNN and other major media almost unanimously declared Hillary Clinton the winner.

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Right after the debate, a CNN poll found 81% of viewers thought Sanders won. A CNN-Facebook poll, no longer findable on the CNN website, at one point had Sanders on top with 75% of the vote, Clinton with 18%, O’Malley and Webb with 3% and Chafee with 1%.

Yet CNN’s post-debate coverage included articles titled “Hilary Clinton’s Big Night on the Debate Stage” and “Best of Hilary Clinton from the Dem Debate.” When viewers complained about the obvious distortion in coverage compared to polls, CNN started deleting critical comments leading new commenters to compare the tactics to Russia, as Media Equalizer reported.

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Time magazine’s poll: Sanders 59%., Clinton 12%. U.S. News live blog poll : Sanders 82%, Clinton 12%. Google Consumer Surveys poll conducted for IJ Review, (founded by a past advisor to ex-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney): Sanders 43.7%--15 points ahead of Clinton. Fox 5 San Diego TV: Sanders 78.77%. Google Trends also found Sanders won as the most-Googled candidate post-debate in all 50 states. Sanders was also the most-discussed candidate on Facebook, followed by Clinton then Webb, U.S. News reports.

We could not find a single poll that put Clinton in the lead, nor any of the other contenders. Yet the major corporate-owned media blithely fawned over Clinton’s “victory.”

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Follow the money

According to the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-check site Politifact, (image, right) Time-Warner, which owns CNN, is the 7th largest donor to Clinton's campaign. Her top donors also include primarily banks and corporations -- the very institutions Sanders has railed against and seeks to regulate. Tellingly, two of her opponents, O'Malley and Sanders, criticized Clinton in the debate her opposition to breaking up big banks -- footage not shown on the major networks. (Sanders' major donors are predominantly in labor, education, and civil justice.)

Besides direct donations by some media outlets to the Clinton campaign, Politico in May reported on media donations to the Clinton Foundation. Those include NBC, Viacom (owner of CBS), the CEO of Fox News, a top ABC anchor, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters news service, an anchor for PBS, and many more amounting to millions of dollars in media money.

Conspiracy or coincidence?