Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumRobert Reich on Political Reporting
From his Facebook page today (and cross-posted in GDP):
Political reporters know only three stories: (1) who's up and who's down, (2) how much money candidates have raised, (3) which candidates have made what gaffes, and (4) who's attacking whom. They're not trained to report on what the candidates actually say, or the economic and social realities that are fueling what they say and why their candidacies are catching on (or not).
Yet even given these realities, I continue to be surprised at how little of what's reported about Bernie mentions widening inequality, flat wages, CEO pay, the depredations of Wall Street, and the flooding of our democracy with money from big corporations and the wealthy. Indeed, I'm appalled at how little Bernie's campaign is being covered at all.
Today, after delivering a major policy address calling for an investment of $1 trillion over 5 years to modernize our countrys physical infrastructure, thereby creating and maintaining at least 13 million good-paying jobs while making our country more productive, Bernie happened to mention to a reporter that the Clinton campaign is getting nervous about his rising poll numbers. His comment about Clinton was all that was reported.
Bernie's surge has nothing whatever to do with Hillary's campaign; and her campaign's supposed "nervousness" is completely irrelevant to Bernie's message or the enthusiasm it's garnering.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)how honest and up front he is about issues that America desperately need addressing. I honestly cannot disagree with anything he has proposed. Yet MSM, or as I call it, CM(corporate media) refuses to cover him. Makes you wonder who the media is really for? They all appear to be puppets of the 1%. My theory is that all politicians with a CPAC, and CM, are bought and paid for by the 1%. Does that sound like an oligarchy to you? It sure does to me. And we can all thank our corrupt Supreme Court for passing Citizens United. Our democracy has slowly been torn apart for the past 40 years. Now look where we are today. The middle class is all but destroyed. Our jobs are all but gone.
Our democracy is being destroyed right in front of our eyes, and no one in CM is saying a thing about it. Bernie is!!!! I can only hope that as we get closer, CM, will finally figure this out. Not as long as the 1% keeps feeding them money!!!
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)$1 trillion divided by 5 years = $200 billion per year divided by $50,000 salary = 4 million jobs