Morning Joe faults itself for not covering Bernie enough--should have been more critical!

[merrily]

Back on August 13, 2015, a DUer named merrily, who often grumbles about media, posted about how Morning Joe bent over backwards not to mention Bernie. http://www.democraticunderground.com/128036990 While Bernie could really have used media coverage to up his name recognition while he was building a war chest, media silence was maintained, interrupted by the occasional burst of a hit piece, snark and/or condescension.

Supporters of Sanders were berated for imagining that media was handling Bernie unfairly...until the Tyndall Report indicated a silence as to campaign initiated stories so widespread and so near total that a conspiracy among the networks was the only plausible explanation. Then followed a brief, semi-demi-honeymoon period in which some media pretended to have just noticed that, by gum, they had not been covering Bernie and his candidacy just might be a bit of a newsworthy blip on the way to Hillary's "inevitable" nomination. There was even a spate of news stories about how biased coverage, if any, of Bernie's run had been. I gave links to the Tyndall Report and just a few of those stories in this post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280166952 I have to say that even Morning Joe said some nice things about Bernie, though always adding that, of course, he would not be the nominee.

And so, now, everything should be on an even keel, right? Well, no. Apparently, now the media mess is that media "missed" the story, when it should really have been far more critical of Bernie!!! And, as luck would have it, Morning Joe comes to this realization on the day when Bernie is about to be a guest on the show.

I remember something a bit similar around the Iraq invasion. Media was patently complicit with the Bush administration in the "run up to the Iraq invasion." After its objective was accomplished and no WMD were found, media finally acknowledged that perhaps its behavior had been, um, less than objective prior to the invasion. This self reflection lasted about a picosecond (relatively), whereupon media went back to business as usual. Will media be even that honest this time? We will seee.

[kracer20]

1. He is on right now.

So far looking good!

[merrily]

2. He did great!

[BernieforPres2016]

3. Morning Joe is scum

Most have probably heard the tape of them talking with Trump on a hot mic during a commercial break about how they all thought things were going, as if they were all on the same team. Then later in the campaign, Trump refused to condemn David Duke and Joe went on a rant about how it was "disqualifying" for Trump. So did they stop having Trump on their show or go after him when he did appear? Of course not.

I saw them on Tuesday morning mocking Hillary and lauding Bernie on his fundraising. Mika looked like she was ready to spit on Hillary. Then on Wednesday they played footsie with Hillary and asked her the same bunch of setup questions from her campaign, basically the same script that Chris Cuomo worked from at CNN later in the day. They were questions around the NY Daily News transcript and the effort the Clinton campaign announced on Tuesday night to "disqualify" Bernie.

So now they're saying they haven't been tough enough on Bernie? I guess the disqualification strategy of the Clinton campaign and their MSM allies continues.

[IdaBriggs]

4. Their faces about him being invited to the Vatican were awesome!

I was very pleased.

[merrily]

5. Mike Barnicle was pushing "Bernie Bro" psittacisms this morning.

[BernieforPres2016]

6. That's Mike Barnicle who was fired as a journalist for making up stories and for plaigirism

How is he still employed in the media?

http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=192

<MIKE BARNICLE 's luck had finally run out.
For years the popular Boston Globe columnist, the voice of the city's working class, had been dogged by suspicions that he was making up material. A local magazine for a time ran a regular feature titled ``Unbelievably Barnicle" that raised questions about the truthfulness of his work. But Boston Mike's career did nothing but flourish.
In early August, he exhibited survival skills worthy of President Clinton when he faced down his boss, who had asked him to resign after Barnicle wrote a column containing, without attribution, someone else's material.>

[merrily]

7. I know about his plagiarism and made up stories. I have no idea how he is still in media.