The Diane Rehm show Friday news round up panel did it again.

[NRaleighLiberal]

"Bernie Sanders?"

" ha ha ha ha - no way - ha ha"

Of course, they veiled the above with loads of mush words. "The people are not basically with Bernie". "His appeal is very narrow".

Interesting listening to those in the protected 1% bubble having no F'in clue as to how the vast majority of the country lives - nor do they care. The media's hands are very, very dirty indeed in terms of where we are as a country.

[Agschmid]

1. Who was on?

Ill have to listen on the way home.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I didn't catch the panel - was en route and listened just long enough to steam...which is typical!

[Ron Green]

2. "First they laugh at you..."

[gratuitous]

4. His appeal is very narrow

It's baffling, though, why his positions all poll so well. The millionaires who govern our public media discourse just have no idea why so many people would care about minimum wages, affordable housing, voting rights and the other "narrow appeal" issues that silly man keeps harping on.

[Sherman A1]

5. Simple answer

turn off Diane Rehm and never look back.

I did years ago and am much happier.

[demwing]

6. I used to love NPR

now it infuriates me. Cut the cord almost a year ago and my blood pressure thanked me...

[rurallib]

9. yep me too

still listen when terrestrial radio is my only choice (other radio is sooooo bad). But I am learning to ignore much of what they say, knowing that like other for profits, they have sponsors to curry.

[hunter]

8. It's Fox News for those who think they are too smart for Fox News.

I have some trouble with our local "public radio" stations because they are not always awful like that. Some of their programming is local and worth listening to, but then, always, my good will is shattered when the mega-corporate blather oozes out. I don't give a fuck about the "market report" as odds are still good I'll "retire" as an off-my-meds lunatic living under a tarp down by the creek.

The saddest thing to me is that radio technology has advanced to such a point these days that there's no reason to grant monopolies on some little bit of radio spectrum.

The only barrier to entry into the radio business ought to be paying for some mass produced high-tech transmitter, paying for the electricity to power it, and strict rules requiring local community produced content and community ownership for these channels. But that would break existing business models... boo hoo.

My mom's a retired local radio person. In her days it was very WKRP. They had their own DJs and news people who would actually leap out of bed and get to the station as quick as they could if some big local story was breaking, like the time a gasoline tanker crashed and exploded on the highway, or after big earthquakes.

Today "local" radio is mostly useless. A few years ago we had a monster industrial fire in town, you could see, or even choke on the smoke everywhere in the city, but nope, on all the local stations the highly automated "programming" continued without interuption.

[Buzz Clik]

7. The Panel:

Sheryl Gay Stolberg national correspondent, The New York Times.
John Prideaux Washington correspondent, The Economist.
Domenico Montanaro lead political editor, NPR

When asked about Hillary Clinton's poll numbers, Stolberg gave a laundry list of Clinton's bad choices and missteps. Probably ten in all: emails, Clinton Foundation, etc. "This all feeds into long standing doubts that Americans -- even Democrats -- have about her."

They also discussed the shortcomings of Jeb Bush and the huge cast of GOP candidates; they discussed the liability of Jeb being attached to his family.

Discussing Sanders -- their comments: Sanders is calling for lots of debates. This would be bad for Hillary, good for Sanders to get more (and free) media attention.

That was it. Nothing even similar to "The people are not basically with Bernie" or "His appeal is very narrow".

Surprise!

http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio/#/shows/2015-06-05/friday-news-roundup-domestic/110350/@00:00