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Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:45 PM Feb 2016

The More Americans Hear Bernie Sanders, The More They Like Him

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/13/sorry-corporate-media-more-americans-hear-bernie-sanders-more-they-him

Dear Corporate Media:

In bringing us the 2016 election spectacle, you demonstrate once again that the national mass media in the United States function, consciously or not, as the guardians of “managed democracy.” That is, as the distinguished political scientist Sheldon Wolin observed, democracy that does not threaten the interests of, well, you, the corporate elite.

For much of the campaign your entertainment medium called TV news has been fervently attending to the demagogic campaign of Donald Trump. Competing for audience attention, your cameras gravitate to the latest outrageous comment of Trump (or Ted Cruz, or Ben Carson for that matter). After all, the Donald was already a media-anointed celebrity on reality TV.

As huge corporations, it is obviously in your immediate economic interest to give the demagogues a lot of air time—they do grab our attention, whether positively or negatively. And sure enough, as media watchers like Andrew Tyndall and Eric Boehlert have documented, Trump coverage on network news has radically overwhelmed coverage of other candidates, most notably Bernie Sanders:
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The More Americans Hear Bernie Sanders, The More They Like Him (Original Post) Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 OP
Kickin' Faux pas Feb 2016 #1
I think with Hillary Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 #2
They're probably thinking of Larry David wyldwolf Feb 2016 #3
Bernie is running an important campaign One of the 99 Feb 2016 #4

One of the 99

(2,280 posts)
4. Bernie is running an important campaign
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 01:05 PM
Feb 2016

and saying things that the corporate media has been ignoring for decades.

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