Why did CNN and Corporate Media hack down Howard Dean's campaign?

[sagesnow]

"Cash LeBrun:
NBC, CNN, and the rest of the main stream media didn’t want Universal Healthcare, they tried to portray Howard Dean as crazy and John Kerry as electable. Every time they showed a clip of a candidate, it was of them talking about an issue with a sound bite, but every clip of Dean was him screaming. NBC, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media derailed Howard Dean’s campaign because of their bias against progressive issues like Universal Health (Care)"

[Sherman A1]

1. Simple

Green Foldin’ Money 💰.

[Renew Deal]

2. A lot of it was coming from the other campaigns

Dean just fed into the narrative that he wasn’t ready.

[brooklynite]

3. A good conspiracy theory never dies...

If the Dean Scream hadn't happened, the "meme" would have been "Howard Dean's 'inevitable' victory collapses; Dean comes in as a mediocre third place".

Which would have been true.

As for the scream itself, Dean has never claimed it was "juiced".

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-howard-dean-can-teach-us-about-2016/

[rurallib]

4. I was always under the impression it was Dean's threat to break up

corporate media.

Here is a take from Thom Hartmann:

https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2019/08/will-media-dean-scream-bernie

Back in the 2004 election, when Howard Dean was running in the Democratic primary, he did an interview with Chris Matthews and said that if he was elected president he would work to break up big corporate monopolies, including the big media companies. Shortly there after, the "Dean Scream" happened - a completely made up thing engineered by the media, that took Dean down. This week Bernie rolled out a plan to break up the big media monopolies, and the question now for the country is, "Will the media now try to take Bernie down the same way they did Dean, and if they do try, will it work?"

I do remember that in December and January Dean's on air presence on cable (basically MSNBC because that was what we watched) dwindled to almost nothing. We live in Iowa and I was a big Deaniac at the time.

Mrs. Lib and I talked about this a lot in January that year wondering what happened - we don't watch Matthews. Next thing I know Kerry signs are popping up all over the place.

Anyway that is what I remember - boy do I remember that Kerry rise backed especially by the fire fighters.