MSNBC is giving CARLY FIORINA and BEN CARSON more air time than Bernie. eom

[djean111]

1. None of the networks - NONE of them - are there for anything but ratings and ads.

We have always commented on how the GOP voters seem to get all of their information from TV - TV knows that, and that is who they cater to. They want ratings, they want clicks. It is not a conspiracy, it is just business.

As Brad Pitt once said in a movie, the United States is not a country, it is a business.

Bernie will get more time when the race tightens up. Right now, the networks want crazy, they want scandal. That's all that is happening. We are so immersed in the primaries, too - and to most people, the primaries are really far away. The vast majority of people, IMO, just give the primaries a passing thought, they don't dwell on it.

So - just ratings, and remember, giant corporations control TV. They always work in their own best interests. I think they are getting ratings with the insane right now, and a sane-looking GOP candidate will be ushered in when the crazy gets old or dies down. They never give the Dems much air time anyway, and at this point they are just hoping for a scandal. That "fair and balanced" thing was gotten rid of a long time ago. The Fairness Doctrine was done away with during Reagan's term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

I don't think, at this point, the networks are "picking winners", they are just picking what seems to get attention.