The "kids" on Facebook

Last edited Tue Oct 20, 2015, 09:27 PM - Edit history (2)

within 21 seconds Jake Tapper and Don Lemon used a dismissing term four times to describe the people on Facebook which overwhelmingly chose Bernie Sanders as the winner of the Democratic Debate.

Tapper even made it sound as if Facebook was some new-fangled thing to the T.V. viewing audience, Facebook is 11 years old, was started in 2004 and one would have to be pretty disconnected not to have heard about Facebook.

75% chose Bernie as winning the debate, a couple of points on Facebook demographics, females out number males 55% to 43.4% and people older than 25 make up the majority of Facebook users with just over 60%

Keep in mind that people under 17 only make up 8.9% of Facebook users and I would wager an even smaller % of them actually watched the debate, people 18-24 make up 30.9%,according to Tapper and Lemon this was a live response in real time as the debate was progressing, the people were actually viewing it.

So obviously CNN was intent on discounting the people on Facebook, no doubt because the vast majority watching the debate thought Bernie won.

http://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-gets-older-demographic-report-shows-3-million-teens-left-social-network-3-years-1543092



Some argue that the numerous Internet polls including Facebook, Focus Groups and Twitter activity which all showed that Bernie won the debate or was making a major impact are unscientific, they cite real polls as being the standard.

The problem with that is "real polls" don't specify people that actually viewed the debate but people that may of heard about it as well and if they didn't view it, they heard or saw edited clips about it from the media pundits or the question doesn't even come up.

The pundits bucked all the contrary points of view and stated with hardly an exception that Hillary won the debate, this has been repeated 24/7 since the debate while 15 million people actually saw the debate, hundreds of millions did not.

Many people have just seen clips, mostly of Bernie defending Hillary on the e-mail issue but the corporate media clips always omit Bernie's attack against them within the same breath and its preoccupation with saturating the airwaves about scandal and hardly nothing about the issues most important to the people, this is just a prime example of self-serving media manipulation.

Polls that have been taken since the debate have shown Hillary's numbers improving at Bernie's expense but these polls came after the corporate media's continuous propaganda offensive had run for a couple of days and make no mistake about it, people can be influenced by their news sources when not having first hand information, basically having their sense of reality warped.

No doubt this poll was "scientific" but it didn't come in a vacuum, the Republicans and their corporate media stenographers programmed the American People to believe this, despite overwhelming evidence, logic and just basic common sense to the contrary.

All the corporate media has to do was repeat the words Saddam Hussein and 9/11 over and over and over in the same sentence or paragraph, they didn't even have to directly say that Saddam was behind 9/11, just using the words together jelled that message in to the American Peoples' subconscious.



Why would the corporate media brainwash the American People into believing that Hillary won the debate when the majority of actual viewers thought Bernie did?

For that, all you need to do is follow the money, Citizens United is their gold rush and public financing their greatest fear, aside from that Bernie's tax policies of going after the most wealthy is a direct threat to not only their corporate owners and upper management of the corporate media, but many more than well paid pundits as well.



You can see their team at work just Googling Bernie's name, to see what the stories about him are from the corporate media, they're cookie cutter and extremely repetitive, hardly no deviation or bucking points of view.

Even if you went with the "scientific" polls that say almost one third of the American People believed that Bernie won, you might expect something along those lines from the corporate media programming pundits but it's not even close.