Bernie Sanders Wants to Tell the Story That Corporate Media Fails To Tell

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Excellent Nation piece.

Bernie Sanders Wants to Tell the Story That Corporate Media Fails To Tell

https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-wants-to-tell-the-story-that-corporate-media-fails-to/

Frustrated with the media's neglect of economic issues that matter to the working class, the senator tells The Nation how he’ll use live-streaming to force the issue.


For decades, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has objected to the failure of major media outlets to cover the growth of economic inequality in America. As a presidential contender in 2016, he used every opportunity that was afforded him in the media to address poverty, plutocracy and the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of “the billionaire class.”

Now, he’s doing something to tip the balance of the popular discourse away from the agendas of the super rich and toward the real life concerns of working-class Americans. Something big. On Monday, from 7 to 8:30 pm ET, he will host a livestreamed town hall meeting on “Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle Class.” With Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, filmmaker Michael Moore, economist Darrick Hamilton and others, Sanders will lead a discussion about the “growing power of corporate interests and how we can build economy that works for all Americans.” Livestreamed on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by Sanders, Warren, Moore, The Guardian, NowThis, The Young Turks and Act.tv, the initiative will reach social media sites with a combined following of close to 50 million Americans.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. This is PRECISELY where our focus needs to be for 2018... good for Bernie!!

[Glamrock]

2. Thanks for the heads up Haddin!

Will be sure to watch. But be prepared brother, you got incoming fire headed your way....

[ehrnst]

3. Hillary won the votes of people who voted on economic anxiety by double digits

over DT. So there's that.

But among the 52 percent of voters who said economics was the most important issue in the election, Clinton beat Trump by double digits.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/hillary-clinton-working-class/509477/

[Silver1]

4. Bernie Sanders is the best kind of thorn in the side ...

becuase he's so smart and says it like it is. And, wow, can he speak. Truth can hurt and be liberating at the same time.

I will tune in!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Yep. He says it like it is. We need more like him.

[Arazi]

5. Outstanding!! Big K&R

[leftstreet]

6. DURec

[Autumn]

7. Excellent! Thanks for posting this, very in depth and just what we need.