Why Bernie Sanders Is Absolutely Correct About the Washington Post--and Corporate Media Overall

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14. It's "a long-standing strategy pioneered by conservatives"

“That’s why I suspect that these complaints are really about “working the refs,” a long-standing strategy pioneered by conservatives: Complain that you’re the victim of media bias, and reporters will respond by bending over backward to show they’re being fair to you, leading to more favorable coverage, at least for a while. Sanders might also be looking to energize his supporters, who see him as a rebel fighting an establishment that is terrified of him and will do anything to stop him. Four years ago it was the Democratic National Committee. Today it’s the media. Either way, it helps tell a story that gives Sanders’s candidacy a heroic character.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/14/bernie-sanderss-real-media-problem/?noredirect=on