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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

Why Isn’t the Media Feeling the Bern?

Author:     Jim Hightower
Source:     Nation of Change
Publication Date:     January 1, 2016
 Link: Why Isn’t the Media Feeling the Bern?
Stephan:   Jim Hightower echoes my own views as you have read. The non-coverage of Bernie Sanders is one of the most glaring things about corporate media during this election cycle. Beyond his allotted 30 seconds he has virtually vanished from MSNBC and CNN. It is so blatant. Donald Trump is a study in how to run for President spending almost no money, and Bernie Sanders is a study in how a campaign is kept alive and thrives when shut out of the media.
Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Polls show that Bernie Sanders would trounce Donald Trump, but you’d never know that from watching TV news. (emphasis added)

Let’s go to the scoreboard to see who’s winning the exciting presidential election media coverage game.

The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, found that Trump is tromp, tromp, tromping over the airtime of everyone else.

From last January through November, these dominant flagship news shows devoted 234 minutes of prime-time coverage to the incessant chirping of the yellow-crested birdbrain, with no other contender getting even a fourth of that.

Take Bernie Sanders, who’s stunning the political establishment with a fiery populist campaign that’s drawing record crowds. Indeed, Sanders’ upstart campaign is commanding a comparable share of support within the Democratic Party’s voting base to what Trump is enjoying from the Republican electorate.

And — get this — polls also show Bernie trouncing The Donald if they face each other in November’s presidential showdown. So surely […]

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