Washington Post-What we learned from Bernie Sanders's town hall

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77. Not on social media. Russia and the Kochs made

damned sure of that.

If the NYT and MSNBC, etcetera, gave him technically a bit less coverage, it's because they knew from the very beginning that he could not win, although they did not know at first that Russia would be providing some of the outside lift that carried him much farther than expected.

My complaint about them is very different -- they provided a great deal of that lift themselves.
They cynically mislead readers about Sanders' chances, puffed him up in various other ways, and hid or underreported negative aspects.

They used Sanders to pump up their profits AND to undermine the Democratic Party candidates, who threatened to take control of congress and the WH and restore controls on business.

Btw, the very Wednesday that there were no longer enough open delegates for Sanders to win, even if he took every single one, the NYT hid that news behind a bland headline in an undersized font. ABOVE that truth was a full-size headline claiming the primary the day before had given Sanders' candidacy a big surge. (!) One of their usual negative headlines about Hillary was full-size below it.

You actually should be grateful, very grateful for the amount and type of coverage he got.

Or maybe not?