Reich calls out media for slanted, de minimis coverage of enthusiasm for Bernie [View all]

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Reich's latest FB entry, late Saturday night, (9 hours ago) already has over 16,000 likes and 6,000 shares. Let's support Reich's support of Bernie's campaign by liking and sharing his comments as well. Go to: https://www.facebook.com/RBReich?fref=nf

The media are pumping up Trump and playing down Bernie.

Data provided by Google to the journalism site FiveThirtyEight found that 46 percent of the media coverage over the last month about the GOP candidates was about Trump. Between June 14 and July 12, Trump got more coverage than the combined total of Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio, generally considered the leading GOP candidates.

Meanwhile, the media is barely covering the huge enthusiasm Bernie Sanders has been generating – and when it does, it describes the surge solely through the prism of Hillary rather than as a response to what Sanders is saying. The New York Times is hardly mentioning Bernie at all (its front-page story today is about Hillary's father).

Why is the media giving Trump so much attention and Sanders so little?

His comment then links to Alternet's "Why Is the NY Times Basically Doing a Blackout on Bernie Sanders? The New York Times' Sanders coverage is intellectually dishonest." article.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/why-ny-times-basically-doing-blackout-bernie-sanders

99th Monkey has started a thread on this Alternet article in the Sanders group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128028276

It's a long, detailed article excoriating the Times for intellectually dishonest coverage rising to the level of journalistic malpractice. Give it a read.