The pundit class continues to misunderstand Bernie Sanders - and it shows

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49. Calling the media elites without using the actual word.

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"Class." Us and Them. Both sides.

MSNBC is a "leftwing version of Fox News"? No, Maddow explains during her interview on "The View" that Fox is a political campaign to get Republicans elected and move the party to the Right, convinces the audience that everything else is fake news and that's why they are so loyal. MSNBC is run as just a TV network, the audience consumes lots of different news sources, why they aren't so loyal. Totally different things.

I guess the author thinks everything's like right-wing media where they get talking points and everyone repeats them. It doesn't even make sense when he criticizes Maddow for being too interested in Russia. It's news.

Climate change has been in the news since Greta Thunberg spoke at the UN. Activists are doing the job of getting topics out there. Social media is there.

It's like anything else. Sometimes the media's very, very bad (emails, Iraq War, etc.) and sometimes it's good. I'm shocked when "Nightline" does actual reporting. Yesterday they aired a good story about the epidemic of missing Native American women. Usually it's crap about celebrities, murders, and depressing stories about a sick child or sad animals.

On edit: Just saw a PBS story about unions in Las Vegas and Nightline story about melting glaciers in the Alps due to climate change.

The only carefully planned political conspiracy funded by oligarchs is the right-wing media empire. The bland, unoriginal, conventional, ridiculous things about this country is what Paul Fussell talks about in his 1991 book "BAD, Or, The Dumbing of America."