2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Biased Corporate Network News For Blacking Out His Message [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)It's not the job of the media to air Sanders' stump speech. They aired it often enough when he was pulling in big crowds. It's not their job to TOUT for him.
He's on Meet the Press or Face the Nation or CNN or MSNBC every weekend. More than Clinton, certainly.
If he says something newsworthy, they'll cover it.
Trump's xenophobic remarks may be hateful and strange, but they're sure as hell newsworthy. I'm trying to remember the last time I heard a POTUS candidate say "Deport them all!" and "Let's impose a religious test on immigration!!" That is weird. That is hateful. That is NEWS. "I support a pay raise and more jobs" is just not news. It's the same campaign promise that we've heard from almost every candidate for the last century.
No one is "limiting Bernie's message." He goes on all the Sunday talkers and gets a good chunk of free time. He's free to buy commercial air time--like everyone else is doing-- if he really wants to get his message out, too.
He's coming off as a whiner though--not a leader--when he gripes in this fashion about the Mean Old MSM.