If Bernie attacks the democrats in any way this evening

[JCanete]

169. No, it is simply the reality of the paper and our 4th estate in general.

It isn't even that it is lying or that the people at it are lying. It is that, by virtue of money being a factor...of advertising being a factor, and the perspectives of the owners of the paper being a factor, socialistic perspectives are a rare thing to find because those are not the people who end up getting placed to do the work at these corporate institutions. When you have a bunch of people surrounded by others like them, all clamped into the same narrow range of perspective, it isn't surprising what their blind-spots are.

And as to media. Why are democrats constantly the apologists for the shitty media? It makes us fools. For the most part, corporate media smears dems and hides the flaws of republicans, and then they attack it and we defend it. We entrench its lies by not calling it what it is. We let the republicans take up that mantle. Its fucking hilarious.

So then, every time the "llbrul media" breaks a story or colors a story, the audience assumes its liberal. If it is attacking a dem, well, then it is doing so begrudgingly because shit, it hates eating its own. If it attacks a repub, well that is something to be taken with a huge grain of salt, because everybody, including democrats, know that that's just libruls being libruls.