The corporate media conglomerates have already cut away from Bernie's speech

[Uncle Joe]

so they could "define" what he is stating in real time, cowards.

[Shell_Seas]

1. They didn't show the hearings yesterday, either.

[tishaLA]

2. They've only rarely covered any campaign speeches live

especially those other than campaign kickoff speeches.

[SouthernProgressive]

3. Fucking fake news oligarchs.... NT

[TexasTowelie]

4. Is Bernie saying something that he hasn't said previously?

If he isn't, then it isn't news.

[highplainsdem]

8. Haven't heard anything new so far.

[Skya Rhen]

5. Why didn't they cover Biden's Primetime speech yesterday, live, like they covered Bernie's?

[highplainsdem]

10. I think partly because they had the text of the speech earlier, and because Biden worked part of

what was supposed to be his evening speech in Davenport into what he said earlier, so the networks had both the text and some video to use.

[Politicub]

25. Damn communications strategy!

Perhaps Bernie can bend the media to his preferences by sheer will and forgo any planning.

[George II]

14. Damned corporate media conglomerates!!!!

[Perseus]

6. When people get real sincere about fighting the media they will all cut their cable subcriptions

We want to fight the media? Stop giving them money, cut your cable subscription and let them know why you are doing it.

Its like this, we may write all day in DU, the Newspaper, Magazines, Periodicals, on the walls, wherever, but while we keep funneling money to them, everything else is mute. They will react when it hits them where they really care, the wallet. They knew giving the buffoon so much coverage during the last election was not good for the country and the World, did they care? of course not, it brought them ratings.

Sticks and stones may hurt their bones, but lack of money will kill them, or at least convert all these traitors into patriots.

I cut my cable service more than five years ago, and I could not be happier. I just get an antenna, watch whatever I like that doesn't involve "opinions", like "Andy Griffith Show, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Voice, now Songland, Golf when on TV, and that is the end of it. Yes, I miss watching Tennis, Soccer, but hey, it is worth it. I get offers every week, they want me back

[highplainsdem]

7. So far Bernie's speech has been the same old same old same old same old...

delivered as the same tired rant.

[LibFarmer]

9. It probably helped Bernie

The socialism gig would have hurt him if more people had watched.

[oasis]

11. His speech was getting interesting on CNN, when suddenly host, Brianna

Keilor cut from it, implying Bernie was only repeating his 2016 campaign message.

The CNN hosts today have been very critical of Democrats.

[highplainsdem]

13. It is pretty much his standard stump speech. Nothing new, really. I really expected something

different, given the emphasis his supporters were giving the speech in advance.

[oasis]

18. I'm no Bernie fan but, except for Don Lemon, I'm done with CNN. nt

[highplainsdem]

19. Oasis, cable news almost always cuts away from political speeches now. That includes

Fox cutting away from many Trump speeches.

There's just a lot of news to cover. AND a lot of candidates.

Fortunately, there are usually ways to watch the entire speech online. And sometimes C-SPAN might carry it all (no idea if they did with Bernie's speech today).

[Uncle Joe]

20. No it wasn't and CNN only started covering it for just a few minutes before cutting away.

This speech was much more in depth and historical than Bernie's stump speech.

Bernie tied it all together.

[Skya Rhen]

27. They covered it for exactly 13 minutes and it was more live coverage than

Biden had for his speech, last night, which was zero...

[LanternWaste]

12. Much as "the corporate media conglomerates" cut away from Trump's speech.

How vindictive and cowardly they all are, indeed...

Or, they could be fishing for ratings (y'know... it's kinda what they do); as neither Sanders nor Trump seem to be doing so well these days on that particular tack.




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[George II]

15. Or perhaps they're interested in presenting real news?

[George II]

16. The speech is available on Youtube, surprised it hasn't been posted on DU yet.

[Uncle Joe]

17. It is on D.U. I viewed it after CNN cut away

so their pundits could spin what Bernie was actually stating.

[crazytown]

22. The payload was in the last third of the speech

"Economic rights are human rights"

[Uncle Joe]

23. While also touting Trump's belief in corporate socialism.

[crazytown]

24. and Trump's family as the beneficiaries of corporate socialism

$800+ million I think.

[Uncle Joe]

26. Precisely crazytown.

[highplainsdem]

28. IF Bernie had given a much shorter, sharper speech, starting with an attack on Trump as the

beneficiary of corporate socialism -- and if he'd gone from that to trying to equate the New Deal with democratic socialism and then focused that segment on the Democratic Party having unfinished business bringing those goals to fruition, creating fairness -- then the speech would probably have had MUCH more impact, and it would have been more likely to get aired in its entirety.

Instead, Bernie sort of meandered through much of the speech, and even if it was a bit more comprehensive than many of his stump speeches, it still sounded too much like them.

[crazytown]

30. To be honest, I was expecting something more sophisticated,

but I agree, starting with a critique of corporate welfare would have been more effective.

[highplainsdem]

31. By "more sophisticated" do you mean you were expecting Benie to somehow redefine or explain

democratic socialism to make it more appealing to most voters?

That's actually what I was expecting from the hype about the speech.

But if the speech was going to be "democratic socialism is good for the 99%, Trump personally benefits from corporate welfare for the 1%" then I still feel Bernie should have just started with a really harsh attack on Trump.

[crazytown]

32. One of my Economics Professors was a genuine marxist

He could frame an argument in terms of class struggle and collectivism, sounding reasonable and avoiding red flag terminology while mendaciously reconciling his analysis with respectable analysis.

There was nothing intellectual in Bernie's speech, and little to camouflage the albatross, as you put it, around his neck.

I though at one point he would expand 'economic rights are human rights' into something more encompassing that a power point list of policies but not so. The stumbling block here is that human rights are individual rights. Urggh ... I am so tired of discussing socialism. I thought we were done with this stuff 30 years ago.

[SouthernProgressive]

33. I stopped listening after a couple of minutes.

The start was nothing but his standard stump speech. I didn't see it going anywhere else.

[highplainsdem]

21. Crazytown posted a link to watch it here, before it started.

[prodigitalson]

29. I'm guessing socialism polls higher than

child molester.