Amy Goodman rips CNN for airing Trump’s empty stage instead of Sanders’ speech
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DemocracyNow! host Amy Goodman told CNN’s Brian Stelter that his network and most other mainstream media were “manufacturing consent” for Donald Trump by giving him more airtime than other candidates.
On Sunday’s edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources, Goodman called out CNN for broadcasting an empty stage in anticipation of Donald Trump’s press conference on election night last Tuesday without ever mentioning that Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders was giving a speech to his supporters at the same time.
“Let’s look at Super Tuesday 3, you had major coverage here at CNN, at MSNBC, at Fox — all the networks across all through he night as the polls are closing,” she recalled. “You see the concession speeches and the great victory speeches, you see Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Kasich, you see Donald Trump. You’re waiting here at CNN, at MSNBC. They said he’s going to hold a news conference… and that’s it.”
“Where was Bernie Sanders?” she wondered. “Well, in fact, Bernie Sanders was in Phoenix, Arizona before thousands of people and as the networks were waiting for Donald Trump and waiting and all the pundits are weighing in, they don’t even say that Bernie Sanders is about to speak.”
Goodman pointed out that on another election night, CNN had recorded Hillary Clinton’s victory speech and broadcast it later so that the network could air Trump’s election night press conference where “he sold his steaks and his magazines and his water and everything else.”
“This time, they didn’t even record and show after Bernie Sanders,” she observed. “He was completely absent.”
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watch the video below from CNN, broadcast March 20, 2016.
Michael Calderone ?@mlcalderone 9h9 hours ago
Good TV hosts/execs are now reassessing Trump coverage, but problems were clear last summer: http://huff.to/1NORx9M
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I almost never miss her show. She is honest, and presents the news as it should be presented. She is spot on in this interview, and the interviewer continues interrupted and not allowing her to make her point, especially when she was getting ready to say how the M$M has been intentionally skipping over the Anniversary of the Iraq war. Loved the interview, loved the honest way she presents the facts as to how the M$M is manufacturing consent and is trying very hard to stack the deck against Bernie Sanders. The may be manufacturing consent when it comes to some of America, those that a Trump or a Clinton would love, but not for all of us. Thank God for that. 
To Amy Goodman a true Journalist. 
More coverage of what she is trying to convey would be wonderful, but beyond Free Speech TV and Link TV, it is nearly impossible to hear voices like hers. I'm amazed CNN gave her an opportunity. I've seen her on MSNBC before, but I don't think they like her perspective either. As long as the M$M is making money, they are going to continue to focus their attention on the Donald Trump reality show type campaign. Shame, just goes to show that when the founding father were so persistent in saying we should have freedom of the press. I'm sure they had no idea the freedom would be turned in to this capitalist octopus it has become that will do or say anything for profit. Sad day in America. 
