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HappyPlace

(568 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:26 PM Aug 2015

I'm sorry, but other candidates are in the news nonstop. Bernie has 28,000 at an event, and....



...it's not aired by any of the major news outlets???

I don't have cable, but I'm told that he's being ignored altogether.

Is anybody with cable seeing it aired live, or even bits of it on CNN or MSNBC???



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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
3. CNN today (about 12:30am) had a 2-3 second clip of Bernie in Portland,
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:34 PM
Aug 2015

saying his crowd t/here was "19,000" not the actual number of 28,000, then
they cut to endlessly repeating the faux-BLM shout-down-Sanders stunt in
Seattle, that happened the DAY BEFORE and the insinuation was thick, that
"Bernie still has a 'race problem'" .. and no mention of Symone Sanders,
brilliant Black activists', rousing introductory speech, just before Bernie cane
on the Portland stage.

So yes, it got "coverage" if you can call it that.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
4. We are shaking the smug, pompous arrogance of the Powers That Be
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:36 PM
Aug 2015

to the very core of their corrupt elitist existence.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
5. yes it sucks but the msm is by this very act showing how irrelevant they are
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:37 PM
Aug 2015

No Sanders coverage and look how many people are showing up at his rallys! So really at the end of the day, he doesn't need it..FB and Twitter are doing a fine job at spreading the word.

The world is changing...

global1

(25,242 posts)
11. Bernie Sanders, The Democratic Social Media Candidate.....
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:24 AM
Aug 2015

and you thought I was going to say 'socialist'. Fooled ya!!!!

All the more reason that we have to keep on turning out record crowds for Bernie wherever he goes.

We need to continue to use social media to get the word out as it is more believable than the cable news shows anyway.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
12. haha!
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:27 AM
Aug 2015

Fooled again!

But seriously, look how social media worked for the Obama campaign...and I'm seeing an awful lot of young people at these rallys so I hope that means there is hope for the future of this country.

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
6. I've heard it talked about
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:40 PM
Aug 2015

on a least 3 different shows. His encounter with BLM, or whoever they were, is getting more attention, though.

oregonjen

(3,336 posts)
7. It's frustrating to hear more about Trump instead of the issues that are important to us all
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:48 PM
Aug 2015

What a crappy distraction, taking away from Bernie's campaign, which is exactly what the MSM wants.

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
9. I watched a couple of hours of "liberal" MSNBC while visiting. They did mostly wall-to-wall Trump
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:03 AM
Aug 2015

coverage, only mentioning Bernie on the BLM matter as they ran a short video of two black women screaming in his face on stage.

That's the "liberal" Rachael Maddow show and Lawrence O'Donnell. What a bunch of Washington insider assholes.

slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
10. Corporate media has ignored Sanders, CNN and MSNBC each gave him about 40 seconds today ..
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:22 AM
Aug 2015

when I checked earlier.

Corporate Dems also do not feel it necessary to hold debates until mid October, some people think there is only one Dem running for office and the media is still covering the Repub debate.



PatrickforO

(14,572 posts)
13. No and we knew this would happen.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:34 AM
Aug 2015

Bernie is the LAST person the capitalist overlords want as president. But Bernie doesn't need the mainstream media. His political revolution will play on SOCIAL MEDIA!!!

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
14. There was nothing on CBS evening news
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:47 AM
Aug 2015

except much talk of Trump and a tiny bit about Hillary's reaction to him. At least I think it was CBS. I'm wondering why MSNBC is spending so much time on The Donald.

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