New York Times Tries to Bury Bernie with Biased Reporting About Thursday’s Clinton-Sanders Debate

[pantsonfire]

It is astonishing how brazen the NY Times has become in flaunting its bias against Bernie Sanders – not just in its editorials, but in its so-called “objective” news coverage.

The first paragraph instantly sets the tone. Sanders, says the Times, “savaged” Mrs Clinton, who then “countered with steely confidence.” Oh, please. The rest of the story goes on to repeat, over and over, directly and by innuendo, how laughable Sanders’ chances are of winning against Clinton – apparently hoping to engineer a self-fulfilling prophecy. Truly shameless is the Times’ grudging mention that “some” national polls show Bernie faring better than Hillary against Trump. But the real truth is that – not just some – but virtually all the national polls (FOX News, CBS News, McClatchy/Marist, IBD/TIPP, PPP (D), Bloomberg, and Quinnipiac) have been showing this for quite some time.

But it doesn’t matter what the truth is. All the corporate media are following the same playbook, from the Times and Daily News to CNN and MSNBC. Listening to what the cable “news” commentators have been saying about the debate almost makes me think I didn’t see and hear what I saw and heard. No wonder both the right and the left despise the media. Only the smug and complacent “middle” believe them.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/new-york-times-tries-bury-bernie-biased-reporting-about-thursdays-clinton-sanders

[msongs]

1. new york time refuses to act like a bernie campaign surrogate. oh no the very evil of it all nt

[pantsonfire]

7. they act like a Hillary Clinton surrogate......n/t

[riversedge]

2. I really think some cheeze would go good with your whine.

[CorporatistNation]

5. So I Guess We Can Depend On Hillary To Remove The Cap On Income That Is Subject To The...

FICA Tax that contributes to the Social Security Trust Fund? Hmmm? Off this sequence alone I now can rest assured that Social Security will not only be protected but expanded... Just "Trust" Hillary .........................................

[dchill]

3. "it doesn’t matter what the truth is. "

It hasn't for some time. I guess NYT and WaPo are prepared to go out of business if Bernie wins.

[Zira]

4. "Corporate media," describes their whole problem with Bernie.

He just may reign in corporations and they may have to pay taxes.

The media has been against him all along. It hurt his numbers but as one of my college professors used to say, "The truth spreads like wildfire." The media cannot put out the fire of truth and it's spreading too fast for them to throw this election to Hillary no matter how many delegates she gets.

30% really won't vote for her no matter what and that's up from 7% in January and rising fast.

There is already a mass exodus from the Democratic Party. They will not survive with that corporate Horse. And that's with the scariest republicans ever - the only thing the DNC is hedging their bets on.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Give every piece about Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton "The Adjective Test".

Then you'll see unmistakably who's in the tank for whom.