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Related: About this forumNYT "Public Editor" Responds to Months of Reader Complaints re: Bernie Sander's Media Blackout
NY Times responds to readers upset with Sanders coverageBy Daniel Pritchett -
September 4, 2015
The New York Times is analyzing its own coverage after users made inquiries about the lack of coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders.
The Bernie Blackout is alive and well. On Wednesday, NPR had a segment on Joe Bidens potential run. Mara Liasson, the national political correspondent, closed her segment without even mentioning Bernie Sanders as an opponent.
There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because shed have a serious opponent Right now, shes basically running against herself and her problems.
Then theres the New York Times, the poster child for what critics refer to as the Liberal Media.
Despite Bernie Sanders being the second most searched term on their website in the last 30 days, the Times has written more articles on Martin OMalleys run for president than Bernie Sanders.
Their readers have noticed and arent too happy. Many comments are similar to this one: The language in this piece is carefully, cleverly selected to portray Senator Sanders as a senile, aggressive old bully compared with the supposed reasonable, presidential, Hillary Clinton. Even Times editorials on George W. Bush use more flattering language than this piece. How this escaped the editing process astonishes me
Today the Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, issued a statement including good news for supporters. Ive heard your requests and over the next few days I will be doing a content analysis of the coverage.
This could potentially be a massive victory for those calling for an end to the Bernie Blackout.
http://berniepost.com/2015/09/nyt-responds-readers-upset-bernie-sanders-coverage/
================NYT Full Reply==================
Looking Ahead: Evaluating Bernie Sanders Coverage in The Times
By
Margaret Sullivan
September 4, 2015 8:00 am
Many Times readers have been asking me, over months now, to examine the papers coverage of Bernie Sanderss presidential run. Its even reached the point where, in comments to my blog posts, on completely unrelated topics, readers are complaining about what they see as dismissive coverage and asking that the matter get my attention.
(See the top reader-recommended comment by Robert Roth here.)
Stop the media blackout on candidates who are not Donald Trump or Secretary Hillary Clinton, Roswell Colt Deutscher wrote in an email to me. And Chris Switzer, in an email criticizing Sanders coverage earlier in the summer, wrote: Ive enjoyed my subscription to the Times but I would like to see better coverage of the issues, less coverage of the personalities, and a little bit of parity among the candidates.
This post is just to say that Ive heard your requests and over the next few days, with the help of my assistant, Joumana Khatib, I will be doing a content analysis of the coverage. I hope to publish a post soon, letting readers know what Ive found in terms of quantity, placement and tone.
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/looking-ahead-evaluating-bernie-sanders-coverage-in-the-times/?_r=0
SonderWoman
(1,169 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)mentioned and so was the latest poll from New Hampshire showing him in the lead by 9 points. Some media blackout.
druidity33
(6,446 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Sanders served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, for eight years and as his state's sole member of the House of Representatives for 16 years, and has been in the Senate since 2007.
This is about coverage of his 2016 run as Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Party.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)You need to learn search syntax. If you do not use the quotation marks, every mention of the word Bernie counts, even if the Bernie is your Dad or whoever.
I searched my name w/o the quotations, and guess what: About 28,700,000 results. I guess my name is more popular than Bernie.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)to the 1%, like so many of the people they promote against all interests except 1 .
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Your publication's bias is quite obvious, clear, and deliberate.
Your credibility in this matter, is nil.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Does ANYONE believe that a supposed "News Agency" could have "missed" the Bernie Explosion?
"We'll look into it." is a Bullshit response by the NY Times.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)In the run up to the Iraq War, right? Just checking...
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)elleng
(130,972 posts)SURE it has!!!
Mass
(27,315 posts)Keep at them Berners.
Go Bernie!
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Here is her Twitter: https://twitter.com/sulliview
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Did I ever tell you about my Content Analysis on the Time's JFK coverage in 1993?
OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024024545
Lots of news fit to print seems to have escaped the editors' attention.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Look at how the "Refugee Crisis" has only started to be mentioned in our US News and even then its been portrayed as "Syrian Refugees" when in fact the refugees are coming from Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.
I'll give credit to Richard Engel on NBC who finally said the countries the refugees are coming from even though the introduction was about all those "Syrian Refugees."
It's almost as if the American People aren't supposed to connect the dots about why all these Refugees are in such terrible circumstances. The underlying meme is that "US didn't bomb Assad" and "Do More" to protect the Syrians. YET most of us here for many years on DU know where this all started and we knew it wouldn't end well after the Iraq Invasion.
BTW: When are they going to release the Full Files on the JFK Assassination? Isn't it long overdue? What about Bobby? Young people today probably know little or nothing about it and its faded into memory for anyone younger than 55 years old or so these days...I think.
Is this what will happen to the memory of the Iraq Invasion in a few more years?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)you'd think the NYT would be a bit more discerning.
NJCher
(35,685 posts)they have such a strange view of what NY and the world is. It is distorted, in no small part because NYC is now a mecca for RPO (rich people only). They think $899 shoes are a bargain.
I have a subscription, but it's only 'cuz I'm a local yokel. It is funny, but I never even think to consult them for an even-handed assessment of the news. I'm so used to their bias that it wouldn't even occur to me to do so.
Cher
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Bernie is the real "New YAWKER" as authentic as can be...but, he lives in GASP...Vermont.
What I love is that Bernie has that NYC spunk which counteracts "THE DONALD" perfectly--if Bernie could get fair coverage. And, in this particular political climate people, imho, are looking for Spunk and NYC Speak because there's a bubbling anger underneath peoples lives when they see how their lifestyle and hopes and dreams have changed since the Wall Street Crooks & Congressional and Presidential "Deregulion Advocates" melted down America and the Eurozone while the 1% take it all.
Mass
(27,315 posts)On the right, it is Trump and anything written about other candidates relates to Trump.
On the left, it is Clinton.
The problem is that the covering is made by people who think that twitting is covering a campaign, and who lack depth on anything. So, they cover Clinton, but to say nothing on the issues. They only speak about the emails.
Note: I am not a Clinton fan. I am just expressing my frustration concerning this campaign coverage in general. The reporters are all incredibly shallow.
This said, I doubt the NYTimes has written more articles about O' Malley than Sanders (except if they wrote an article about O' Malley to say he was done and none for Sanders).
KoKo
(84,711 posts)It's so disgusting to see it. No wonder so many are "cutting the cable cord."
I get better coverage from International News on my ROKU Box than from this crap...we have here from our supposed "News Sites."
No wonder we have "Low Information Voters." What else could they be given the crap they are given to watch!
and knee jerks turn their venom on people given little or no information at all,
then proceed to blame the talking heads instead of their employers and their political deregulators.
pretty sad sight.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)revolution. And they challenged the world famous (liberal) NYT...and won!