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AnotherVoter

(29 posts)
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 02:46 PM Mar 2016

Media matters folks: How the NYT sandbagged Bernie Sanders


There is an interesting article in Rolling Stone online about a "bait and switch" story in the NYTimes. I actually noticed this go down on my own before I saw this. It shocked me.

The article was originally a rare, positive one about Bernie Sanders. I thought it presented some good facts and even sent it to a few people who weren't sure Bernie ever did anything in Congress.

Then a day later (I think) they changed the title and rewrote parts of the story. Even if you read the story now, you can see there are sections that seem like editorial amendments rather than fitting with the tone of the story.

Gross.

Here's a video and a story about the change:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315

Here's the "new" version of the article, with footnote at the bottom as to how it was edited.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/bernie-sanders-amendments.html?_r=1
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Media matters folks: How the NYT sandbagged Bernie Sanders (Original Post) AnotherVoter Mar 2016 OP
but but but, it's the liberal media!!! onecaliberal Mar 2016 #1
many of us are posting this blatant bias on twitter dana_b Mar 2016 #2
Or 1/10 of Trump's coverage bigbrother05 Mar 2016 #4
Just another piece of corporate media conglomerate handiwork. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #3
Of course.. AnotherVoter Mar 2016 #5

dana_b

(11,546 posts)
2. many of us are posting this blatant bias on twitter
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 02:49 PM
Mar 2016

@NYTimes - no journalistic integrity

If Bernie had 1/4 the support that Clinton does, he'd be way ahead now.

AnotherVoter

(29 posts)
5. Of course..
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 02:53 PM
Mar 2016

The author Matt Taibbi is great. From wikipedia about him:

"His July 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine" described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".[15][16][17] The expression "Vampire Squids" has come to represent in financial and political media the perception of the financial and investment sector as entities that "sabotage production" and "sink the economy as they suck the life out of it in the form of rent."[18]"
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