A Bernie Blackout?

[UglyGreed]

On Tuesday night, after Hillary Clinton trounced Bernie Sanders in state after state, Sanders took to a podium before throngs of thousands in Arizona and delivered a stirring speech for nearly an hour.

You didn’t see it? Understandable. It wasn’t covered live by any of the major cable news channels. At all. Not even a couple of minutes.

Why? As the Huffington Post reported:

“Fox News, CNN and MSNBC all declined to carry Sanders’ speech, instead offering punditry about the evening, with the chyrons promising, ‘AWAITING TRUMP’ and ‘STANDING BY FOR TRUMP.’ ”

This episode again drew cries about what has become known as the “Bernie Blackout,” a failure of news organizations, particularly television networks, to seriously cover the Sanders candidacy.

I must say that the numbers back this up, but I want to put more of the focus here on the disparity between the Democratic candidates.

Clinton’s coverage on television has dwarfed Sanders’s. As a New York Times Upshot report this week pointed out, Clinton has received more than twice the “news and commentary” about her campaign “on television, in newspapers and magazines, and on social media” as Sanders has.

(The demagogic real estate developer who leads the Republican field has received more than twice that of Clinton, but Sanders has received more than any of the other Republican candidates.)

In December, the Sanders campaign complained in a news release titled “Why the Bernie Blackout on Corporate Network News?” As the news release put it:

“The insurgent campaign that has drawn the biggest crowds on the presidential campaign trail has been all but ignored on the flagship television network newscasts, according to Tyndall Report, which tracks nightly news coverage by NBC, CBS and ABC.”

The Tyndall Report’s annual totals for 2015 found that Clinton received 121 minutes of campaign coverage on the networks while the “noticeably under-covered” Sanders received only 20 minutes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/opinion/campaign-stops/a-bernie-blackout.html?_r=0

[KPN]

1. It's called mind control.

[UglyGreed]

2. Media's Use of Propaganda to Persuade People's Attitude, Beliefs and Behaviors

http://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpropaganda.html

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Repetitious and redundant don't make good footage or copy...

A journalistic truism since the days of London coffee houses...same old, same old doesn't keep interest.

[Gwhittey]

7. You do realize they did this too Hillary.

And it will get worse if general is her vs Trump. They wanted a Hillary vs Trump match up, but if watch the news coverage they want Trump. They had a empty podium on camera for 20mins waiting for Trump all during Hillary's speech on primary day. Look at amount of coverage she gets vs Trump. 10 to 1 in Trumps Favor.

[lunamagica]

4. Univision showed it. And this is the firs time it happened. One time

They should have covered it, but one time doesn't qualify as conspiracy

[firebrand80]

5. I wonder what would happen if Hillary didn't congratulate Bernie on his wins

No I don't, I know exactly what would happen

[Gwhittey]

10. Don't worry

If Hillary gets into GE you are going to see it from the other side of the coin, when they are showing Trump rally 24/7 for the drama and ignoring Hillary. Unless you think Hillary is so sleazy she will do drama like he is to get more media?CNN has already had coverage of the empty camera waiting for Trump to come on, while Hillary was giving a speech.

[firebrand80]

11. unlike the GOP primary

The more Trumps talks, the more he will hurt himself.

[geek tragedy]

6. maybe a noun, a verb, and "Wall Street" stops being newsworthy after a while nt

[UglyGreed]

8. ........

[workinclasszero]

9. Herr Trump is news unfortunately

Bernie Sanders giving his standard stump speech, like he always does, is not.

[Punkingal]

12. Who in the hell decides that?

If Bernie had gotten fair coverage, we would be looking at a whole different election.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Boards, not editors

and those boards want Trump

[workinclasszero]

14. Trump is a circus show

A three ring show at that.

Of course the MSM is gonna be all over that shit. Trump gets way more coverage than Hillary does as well.

Its the nature of the TV news beast. I don't like it either but there it is.

Dog bites man sells papers and TV ratings it seems.

[Punkingal]

15. It's ridiculous...the dumbing down of America.

I don't much like Hillary, but she's way smarter than Trump. It's nothing short of shameful. And when the GE rolls around, the MSM will skewer her in favor of that blow hard Trump. Wait and see.

[workinclasszero]

16. Oh sure

Trump is going to get the lions share of coverage all year long, I have no doubt.

Wait till the thugs have their convention/riot. The MSM will hold wall to wall 24/7 coverage till its over no doubt.

Use to be MSNBC was a little better but it was hard to hear much about the democratic races a few days ago with all their damned republican/trump reporting going on.

[flamingdem]

17. Very sad. Bernie is a New Yorker after all

One of their own. Clinton is not a born and bred New Yorker, but a New Yorker of convenience.

[CalvinballPro]

18. He gave his usual stump speech, which has been covered multiple times already.

He's losing states, falling behind in delegates and the popular vote, and this has been going on for a while now. Heck, a blackout might even be doing him a favor, otherwise his media narrative will become that of a failed campaign sooner rather than later.