Apart from individual candidates -- The media has reached their inevitable Crappy Moron Stage.

[Armstead]

Something on the TeeVee machine just now (I have it on while I'm doing my real-world work) happened, that made it clear that the Media has entered the WWE/NFL Fight Club stage of the election coverage.

Happens every time.

Bernie Sanders is holding a press conference. The subject is something about the plight of poor children in South Carolina, or something like that. I DON'T KNOW because MSNBC broke into "a news conference with Bernie Sanders" during a question and answer about delegate strategy.

The usual "How can you win because?...." and Sanders tried to indulge them. But at one point he got impatient saying "Here we are to talk about children in South Carolina and you're asking me about delegates!"

Then a reporter actually asked him about a trial Justice Department program. Sanders started to answer and MSNBC broke away and got back to their play-by-play of campaign strategy.

FUCK THEM!!!!

This is an incident involving Sanders, but they could well have done the same to Clinton. Or to a republican candidate. It happens in every campaign season. They devolve into a bunch of Howard Kosells

It's all about strategy, who's picking on whom, who's ahead in the category of males over 5 feet 10 inches.....blah, blah,blah.

And we wonder why the public is uninformed, misinformed? Have no idea of what candidates really stand for?

[Punkingal]

1. Have you noticed that Hillary doesn't do pressers?

Nor does she do interviews, unless with Matthews, Stephanopolus, or Maddow, who won't ask her any tough questions. At least Bernie tries, which is more than you can say for her.

I wonder what kind of questions the idiots would ask her, and why she is afraid of them?

[Skwmom]

2. I don't think it's some fight club stage. They've had an agenda against Sanders since he announced.

Clinton on the other hand has gotten plenty of building up by the corporate media.

Just saw on MSNBC them asking one of her supporters about the hundreds of thousands she is paid for a speech. They guy said it doesn't matter we only care about her record and what she's done and he rattles of all the stuff she will do. But the talking head keeps asking.

So once again Clinton gets to play the victim and point at ONE Of the rare instances where the media isn't so overtly in the bag for her so she can claim the media is against her. That way when they put out their propaganda bullshit in her favor people will think it is true b/c it is from the media that is so against her. What a racket.

And ONCE AGAIN the MILLIONS she and her husband have received in speaking and consulting fees is not disclosed. It's only a few hundred thousand. It being disclosed in a couple of articles doesn't mean a damn thing.

I noticed how on Morning Joe they would do a couple of anti-Clinton things while the rest of the day is spent cheering for Clinton. So she gets built up by the Corp Media while being able to point out where she is being treated unfairly. (They do the opposite for Bernie). Putin is right. When we slammed him for using propaganda against his people and he basically replied that he couldn't hold a candle to the U.S.

The other evening I saw someone (I believe it was a dictator from another country) being interviewed at the trade conference in CA and when asked about his country being a dictatorship he said something about corruption and crony capitalism. Did you ever think we'd reach the point to where we are being lectured to by a brutal dictator. As an American that has to make you so damn proud.

[Jefferson23]

3. 1996 Telecommunications Act..another Clinton gift.

It is terrible, corporate media is about producing noise..disgraceful.

[Skwmom]

5. Corp media is about manipulating the masses to make sure corporate candidates are elected.

[Jefferson23]

7. The consolidation since that went through is horrific. n/t

[restorefreedom]

4. they have their orders

clearly, the meme of the week (and through next week) is: how can you beat the math?

the agenda is clear...the investigation of clinton is getting more serious, and the ptb are desperate to drive bernie out before the convention so they can stick a puppet in at the convention after clinton steps down.

too bad for them bernie is not playing ball

[Armstead]

6. I think is is more a matter os systemic malfeasance

They do like their narratives....but they do this in every election. Obliterate issues and any real information about candidates in favor of shallow horse race coverage.,

[restorefreedom]

8. that is true too. and something about ratings, which of course, equals $$$$$$$$$$$ nt

[Skwmom]

9. And some how their narratives always deliver a corporatist to the Whitehouse. Funny how that works.

[Armstead]

10. That's the convenient side effect