GO BERNIE!

Gads, just look at that look continue on Chris Hayes's face!

He gave Chris a sad. Good.

Some of us on another discussion board have had a letter writing campaign going, calling the mainstream media out on the Bernie Blackout and 24/ 7 Trump-o-thon, along with the "presumptive nominee" propaganda that they keep using to promote Hillary. It seems to be working! Here's the particulars if you would like to join us!

General media contact information, including emails, addresses, and phone numbers:
http://fair.org/take-action-now/media-activism-kit/media-contact-list/

Other than voting, donating to Bernie, and talking to people you know about Bernie's policy positions and history, THE SINGLE GREATEST THING you can do to help his campaign is to WRITE A HARD COPY LETTER to the media protesting their Bernie Blackout and wall to wall Trump coverage! Mention that you will be contacting and boycotting their advertisers if they continue the Bernie blackout and Trump "infomercials". I know people who work in newsrooms, and I am told that one hard copy letter has the weight of 100 emails to a news director. This is, they have added, a huge reason why the media skews to the Right; right wingers mail in letters frequently, the Left never does, so the perception is that only the right wing is dissatisfied with their "reporting". Let us change that notion TODAY!

Please borrow time from posting here and on Facebook TODAY to write letters to FIVE of the organizations listed below. When finished, post the text of your letter and who you contacted to this thread.

ABC News: 147 Columbus Ave. New York, NY 10023

CBS News: 524 W. 57 St. New York, NY 10019

NBC News: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10112

MSNBC: One MSNBC Plaza, Secaucus, NJ 07094

CNN: One CNN Center, Atlanta, GA, 30303

New York Times: 620 8th Ave. New York, NY 10018

The Washington Post: 1301 K Street NW, Washington DC 20071

National Public Radio: 1111 N. Capitol St, NE, Washington DC, DC 20002


Remind them that the last time liberals mobilized to boycott the sponsors of a very biased media source THIS happened: http://deadstate.org/thanks-to-a-national-boycott-hate-radio-is-facing-a-20-million-bankruptcy/

If the Fairness Doctrine were still in place and Bernie were given equal time and fair coverage, this would be a very different race! MAKE IT SO!

I remember reading about the correlation between politics and media.

James Fallows wrote a book about this and your pic is a perfect response. Fallows said:

"Coverage of politics is NOT a horse race".

That is how it has been treated for many, many years.

love it!

The most disgusting example of this was when the media adhered to the government's prohibition on depicting the reality of war on US TV.

No coffins -- or hardly any.

It was silent acceptance of a ban on the presentation of the truth about the War in Iraq.

Not even wanting the names of the dead soldiers -- heroes -- to be stated on air. I remember when Ted Koppel (I think it was) finally said them.



Flag-draped coffins of U.S. casualties from Iraq are unloaded from a plane by a military honor guard

A longtime Pentagon policy bars the media from covering the arrival of coffins carrying the military's dead. But that may change under the Obama administration.

. . . .

The military has argued that the ban protects the privacy of families, but critics counter that it shields Americans from the true cost of war.

The scene has played out thousands of times since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: A plane lands at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, and one by one, flag-draped coffins are carried from the cargo hold by soldiers in full dress uniform. The ceremony is somber and moving. But there is also controversy.

The policy against media coverage has been in place since the Gulf War in 1991. Opponents of the Iraq war accused President George W. Bush of keeping the cameras away from Dover for political reasons. In 2004, Joe Biden, now vice president, was the U.S. senator from Delaware. At the time, he called it shameful that soldiers' remains were being "snuck back into the country under the cover of night."