Bernie Sanders Gets MISQUOTED

[Segami]

A while back, Bernie Sanders asked about something that, to the modern reader, seems pretty obvious:

Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like “Girl, 12, raped by 14 men” sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?

The answers are simple and uncontroversial. A lot of men are turned on by rape and enjoy fantasizing about sexual assault; and a lot of commercial publications are fine with using this to sell their product, even if it normalizes rape culture and ultimately threatens the safety of women.

Online publications have long understood this and deliberately try to take advantage of it when promoting their content. SEO editors, for example, will torture their headlines until they can find a way to squeeze in some sexy keywords, even if those keywords are about rape. And not only that, but they’ll arrange and re-arrange their headlines so that those eye-and-search-engine-spider-catching keywords show up in the headline as early as possible. So for example, imagine that you are a Vox editor, and you want to publish an article about the point Bernie just made. Do you call your headline “Sanders criticizes the commercialization of sexual assault”? Or perhaps “Sexual assault commercialization criticized by Sanders?” Probably the latter – but if you really want to rake in the cash, you write something like this:

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy

Where did that first quote come from? The same very essay – Sanders is describing the horrific consequences of media rape culture. The normalization of rape is so monstrous and pernicious, Sanders argues, that some women have even internalized it, and have taught themselves to enjoy the very idea of being sexually assaulted. But instead of giving the reader some minimal idea of what the essay is actually about, Vox pulls a sensational quote about what Sanders is criticizing, shuffles it to the front, and belatedly gets around to explaining where the quote even comes from.



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http://lapostexaminer.com/bernie-sanders-gets-misquoted/2015/05/30

[Katashi_itto]

1. K&R

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Bernie represents a much needed change from the status quo

and some people don't like that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. For the life of me

they pulled that trick...

I am always careful, but too honest for my own good, to quote things correctly. Which if used in a headline will not be as well, as attractive er flame baity.

What they said about headline writing though is not just internet. This shit goes all the way back to oh actual papers. We used to call them... it's on the tip of my tongue, help me out here... YELLOW JOURNALISM...

[hootinholler]

4. IIRC it was called Yellow Journalism

Because the third rate papers that pulled this shit couldn't afford bleached newsprint so their papers had a yellowish tinge.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Correct

[deutsey]

6. K&R

[AtomicKitten]

7. k&r

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. It got worse today.

Out of context, and deliberately misconstruing.


http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-compares-his-sex-article-50-shades-grey

[KoKo]

11. Yes...they deliberately took that snip and advertised that as the Bernie Interview

when I went to view it on the site. I wasn't able to get the full interview just what started off with that headline which was just flame bait to draw eyeballs. Bernie handled it very well with the "50 Shades" comment and Todd backed off.

Disgusting.

[Cheese Sandwich]

30. Yeah.

I think Bernie could have been more clear on what he meant about 50 Shades.

The 1972 essay was apparently intended to be a critique of rape culture and the type of internalized gender stereotypes found in the 50 shades movie. But he was a bit ambiguous in his explanation so of course the Chuck Todd Show or whatever took the worst possible angle and spun it into the whole story.

[sabrina 1]

23. Chuck was doing his job for his corporate bosses, getting that in to hopefully turn off women. They

do think we women are brainless and not likely to bother our 'pretty little heads' checking out where Chuckie might have dug this up from.

And since Chuck has ten thousand times LESS credibility the likelihood that women would trust him, was close to nil.

I donated $50.00 to Bernie's campaign in honor of Chuck Todd's failure though valiant effort to do as he was told by his bosses. The donation will be made in June, next week.

They are despicable, the Old Media.

The New Media is what Bernie is using to reach as many people as possible so he can speak for himself, rather than these shameful excuses for journalism

[Cheese Sandwich]

26. Thank you

I like your OWS signature line.

The big media is not going to help Bernie Sanders anymore than they helped Occupy Wall Street. I don't have a problem with media asking Bernie about his 1972 essay. That is fair. But their presentation of the issue seemed very unfair to me .

You seem to agree and I really appreciate that.

[tiredtoo]

9. Bernie Sanders responded to this

On Meet the Press this morning. I do not watch this show but caught the replay while napping this afternoon. Heard Bernie Sanders and woke up to watch.
He carried himself quite well replying to questions regarding Hillary, Obama and Bill Clinton. He also responded to this quote quite well.

[L0oniX]

10. K & R

[seabeyond]

12. you dont get how much i do NOT want to hear some mans turn on with rape, standing up for my

rights.

do you REALLY think this is helping sanders. i made it thru about HALF of your OP curling my nose, and stomach turning with mens want for rape fantasy associating it with sanders.

i do not even know what you are talking about with your porn, tying sanders name to it cause i have no interest finishing the read.

brilliant

fuckin brilliant

[seabeyond]

13. i see it is mostly men kicking and recommending this, yum, as if they have succeeded at something.

[TDale313]

34. The article really is not what you think.

It's poorly written, and there may well be things you would disagree with, but it actually is trying to talk about how our society (one might even say rape culture) and gender stereotypes have poisoned how men and women relate to each other. By no means would I call this porn. The characterization of the media about this is very misleading. I felt the need to read it because I was more than a little bothered by the second hand accounts. As a feminist and a Bernie supporter, I'm glad I did.

[backscatter712]

14. If this is the most that the Bernie-bashers can come up with...

...they've got nothing.

This is bad college writing from 1972. Even Bernie says it was bad. He's gone on to do awesome things since then, so I'm not inclined to judge him on some shitty article he wrote for a college rag more than 40 years ago.

[seabeyond]

15. ya... cause now you men have even got him wallowing in your porn with you. rah

[backscatter712]

17. That's amazing, you sussed us out!

Bernie Sanders wants to be President, so us men can all wallow in porn! Brilliant deduction, Holmes!

[MisterP]

37. no, not the Porn Marshes! (and how is Bernie not one of "you men"?)

[polly7]

16. This is low.

I hate seeing someone's words and intent scrambled into bullshit like this ...... it really is yellow journalism and the people who do it should be shamed. I feel bad for him.

[beam me up scottie]

18. They're not as low as the Hillary supporters who are trying to say Bernie is into rape porn.

They're not helping their candidate.

[KingCharlemagne]

24. That's like saying that because Hillary voted in 2002 for the Iraq War that killed in excess

of 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians -- Bernie voted against it, BTW -- she's into snuff films and torture porn. She would have had her fill from Abu Ghraib, the various black sites and the snippets Chelsea Manning leaked.

Speaking of which, where the fuck are the full set of Abu Ghraib photos? Credible journalists, among them no less than Seymour Hersh, have alleged that some of the footage depicts American soldiers or mercs sodomizing Iraqi children in front of their parents. Hillary voted for that shit, time and time again.

[beam me up scottie]

25. Well if Bernie has to explain why he wrote an article criticizing rape culture in 1972

she should have to answer for something she wholeheartedly supported a few short years ago.

Good question, there must be some pretty awful content if they're still stalling. I'm not big on conspiracy theories but it makes me wonder.

[KingCharlemagne]

27. If the full dump of photos were released, Obama, Lynch, et. al. would have no

choice but to initiate war crimes and crimes against humanity proceedings against members of the Bush Junta. No more of this "looking forward, not backward" bullshit line. If every DA said that, no crime would ever get prosecuted.

[beam me up scottie]

29. I can see why they don't want to open that can of worms.

People are sick of war and seeing more victims might infuriate them enough to prevent the hawks from starting another.

[KingCharlemagne]

31. These aren't your garden-variety victims either, if Hersh's reporting is to be credited. Instead,

these are Iraqi children being sodomized in front of their parents to break the parents' will and compel them to turn on the Resistance. It worked for the Americans about as well as similar efforts by the French in la guerre sale worked in Algeria. That is, it strengthened the fury of the resistance.

[beam me up scottie]

33. I remember reading about it.

I'm getting pissed all over again.

If they ever do release them all hell is going to break loose.

Afaik they were ordered to release them in March. Have you heard anything else?

[Oilwellian]

19. It all makes sense now doesn't it?

Absolutely despicable and I've seen a few swallow the propaganda hook, line and sinker. So fucking typical.

[m-lekktor]

20. and yet AGAIN VOX posts garbage.

smh

[AtomicKitten]

21. Well, that explains a lot.

Thanks for posting this! Cheers.

[TM99]

22. I had to look up Vox

as I have never heard of it before these last two incidences of bullshit about Sanders.

It looks like Buzzfeed but without the fun animal pictures.

[Kalidurga]

28. Totally Recommended

I expect better from people here. That they will read and do their own thinking and not just have some knee jerk fit. I guess I was wrong. If someone from their group says jump they jump. I don't know who that person is, but they really need to stop with the marching in lock step, it's unbecoming of someone who calls themselves a liberal.

[PowerToThePeople]

32. Get ready for more of this shite. Fascists can only win by lies

and hope they do not come out until after their tenure is over.

[Hekate]

35. Misquoted? You mean like Hillary gets misquoted all the time? Welcome to Presidential Politics.

[AtomicKitten]

36. kick

[LondonReign2]

38. And yet we have DUers, supposed Democrats, linking to that article in that publication