Sanders being rendered nonexistent by Iowa media <frustrated>

[CoffeeCat]

77. Of course, I wasn't suggesting that Sanders was never mentioned...

...in any KCCI article. Of course, he has been. O'Malley has been mentioned in many articles too.

But, you have to admit that posting only Hillary Clinton photos and video within an article about the impending debate, is a bit unfair--especially when the other candidates aren't even mentioned in the article.

This debate is a big moment for the campaign--one of the milestone moments. So the pre- and post-coverage is important. Many people only tune into politics during this time--and if only one candidate is featured in an article--that sends a distinct message, no?

I worked in media relations for many years. I understand when reporters are playing up one point of view or leveraging a certain cause or product. This is very deliberate. Extremely. You can cover the competition with dry, factual mentions and then puff up the other side in ways that make the other guy disappear . We all know what bias looks like.

There are plenty of examples, but the Iraq war comes to mind. Sure, the opposition was covered. But anti-war efforts were sidebars. They were "Oh, and this is happening too" parts of the Iraq War story.

Sanders feels like a sidebar. Whereas Clinton feels like the Iraq War, when you look at the big picture.

And sure, you could Google "Iraq anti-war protests" and many articles will appear. That doesn't mean that the anti-war effort was covered as fairly or positioned as important as the pro-war spectacle that we experienced for months.