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Bernie Sanders has faced a near-blackout from major TV news sources, even though he continues to rise in popularity and fundraising.
By Story Hinckley, Staff OCTOBER 1, 2015
If you’re still a little confused about who Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is, that makes sense – network TV news has largely ignored the Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont. With 23 candidates currently running for president, how could the media have time to cover everyone’s opinions and policies?
But a recent poll has Senator Sanders only 7 points behind Hillary Clinton nationally, and in an average of recent New Hampshire primary polls, Sanders leads Mrs. Clinton by 9 points. In a hypothetical election between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Sanders, Real Clear Politics estimated at the end of Sept. that Sanders would win by 16 points. Even more impressive, only four of the 23 2016 presidential candidates have ever polled at 20 percent support: Mr. Trump, Ben Carson, Clinton, and you guessed it – Bernie Sanders.
So why aren't the major TV networks paying any attention? “A guy in his 70s filling stadiums? Who does he think he is? The Rolling Stones?” Stephen Colbert said on his show earlier this week.
Andrew Tyndall monitored broadcast news from ABC, NBC, and CBS and found that of the 504 minutes devoted thus far to the presidential race, Donald Trump has been given a staggering 145 minutes (nearly 30 percent) and Clinton’s campaign has been given 82 minutes. (Add another 83 minutes if you want to count the time exclusively given to the email scandal.)
How does Sanders compare? He has only gotten a shocking total of eight minutes on network news (about 1.5 percent). This is equivalent to the amount of time the news has devoted to Gov. Chris Christie (who is polling below four percent) and far less than the 43 minutes of coverage devoted to Jeb Bush, who is polling less than 10 percent....
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)after they've spent 15 minutes on Hillary emails and whether Joe is running or not. <- THIS is their
so-call "coverage" of the Democratic Primary.
think
(11,641 posts)Pretty amazing considering Romney is not even running. The bias by corporate MSM is all too obvious.....
questionseverything
(9,661 posts)what passes for the news now is just the propaganda wing of the 1%ers who own said "news stations"
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)If he's got enough $$$ to do it, I suspect he may run some good issue-oriented ads, but maybe you're right.
Guess we shall see down the road.
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)WillyT
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)moondust
(20,006 posts)Owners, producers, and reporters alike?
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Vattel
(9,289 posts)Yesterday I was in NYC and was talking to a bartender about the situation in Syria. The primaries came up and she mentioned that she wasn't enthused about the options. She described Trump is an idiot and Clinton as better but too dishonest. I asked her what she thought of Sanders and she asked, "Isn't he that really conservative guy?" When I told her about him, she said that he sounded really good (and that was in spite of telling her that he is a socialist).
It's amazing how many people still don't know much at all about him. And btw, I love NYC.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)And if they mention his popularity, they will have mention his popular policy stances that their coprprate masters utterly despise.
It's a slippery slope. Better just not to mention Sanders at all.
