#bernieblackout

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cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein (@JasonAdamK)

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[socialisttimes]

Why Bernie's Wins in Wyoming Matters (Click to Read the Article)

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“Protesters used the hashtags #OccupyCNN and #BernieBlackout to organize and speak out against the unequal time given to covering Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over Sanders. Last Saturday, Sanders won the Hawaii, Washington and Alaska primaries by large numbers but the network barely covered the news, activists say downplaying the victories. This while giving a disproportionate amount of time to covering Donald Trump’s latest antics.” (source)

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Fuck CNN

I can't believe how biased our media is. They don't care about this country at all, they just care about money. The fact that they didn't cover Bernie's speech is pro-capitalism propaganda, funded by the 1%, in its most blatant form. I can't believe someone finally came along with the potential power to give this country the economic and political reform it so desperately needs and the media doesn't want to cover them. Hmmmmm I wonder why THAT is? Maybe it's because he's not supporting the billionaire industries that are tearing this nation apart...

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BERNIE SANDERS is the only presidential candidate who spoke up for suffering Palestinians, unlike Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who both pandered to AIPAC’s conservative audience by delivering dogmatic pro-Israel rhetoric. 

AIPAC refused to allow Sanders to televise his remarks - as they have done for other candidates in the past - and most corporate media outlets ignored his speech. 

Bernie’s Middle East / anti-war policy is significant for a number of reasons, but even more so when you consider that Bernie Sanders is Jewish and once lived in Israel and worked a Kibbutz.

(watch Bernie’s speech »here || related post »here)

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Public Editor Knocks NY Times for Stealth-Editing Bernie Sanders Story http://bit.ly/1Rn4Uoj

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MEDIA BIAS AND THEIR CONTINUED BLACKOUT ON BERNIE SANDERS

NONE of the major corporate media outlets even bothered covering Bernie Sanders’ speech on Tuesday night at the conclusion the March 15th primaries. They covered speeches by Hillary Clinton and all of the Republican winners and losers, but cable news channels CNN, Fox, and MSNBC didn’t air the Sanders speech because they were all “waiting” for Republican front runner, Donald Trump.

This is not the first time corporate media has ignored Bernie Sanders, and their prolonged BernieBlackout™ has had the desired effect of minimizing Sanders and pushing their preferred narrative that the 2016 election will be Hillary vs. some other Republican. 

For example, Tuesday before I voted in the primaries, I called around and spoke with some of my aunts who are Black women aged 50 - 75, and I asked them if they were voting for Bernie Sanders. They all said they didn’t really know anything about him and other than a commercial or two, have never heard of him and were probably going to vote for Hillary. I couldn’t help myself and I let out an audible, “Ohh noo, auntie” before going into my “this is why I’m voting for Bernie” routine. It was unsurprising to me that they hadn’t heard much about Sanders, because like most people who are busy making ends meet, and unlike myself, they do not follow politics for a hobby on a daily basis. My aunts are very intelligent and well traveled people, who are super active in their church, and have lived very interesting lives. It only took me about 15 minutes of showing them old YouTube clips of Bernie and Hillary, and educating them about Bernie’s recent and past activism to convince them to vote for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

Corporate media and the establishment wing of the Democratic Party are shoving Hillary Clinton down everyone’s throats and my point is, it’s true: believe it or not, many people still don’t know about Bernie Sanders for a lot of reasons, but the media’s lopsided, 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is a very big reason why. Also, another point is that personal one-on-one contact is more valuable than any political ad.

You can watch Bernie’s full speech »here.