So nice that cable added a Bernie Sanders channel!

[CoffeeCat]

Seriously, people! I'm watching CNN and I can barely believe what I'm hearing and seeing.

What is happening? During the past 40 minutes, CNN has been covering Bernie's Wisconsin speech. Not snippets of it. Not a few minutes. The entire speech! They've only interrupted for commercials and to announce that he won Washington (YAY!).

Before covering his speech, the panel of talking heads was actually fair to Bernie. John King said that Bernie could catch up in delegates if he could parlay today's big wins into states going forward--such as Wisconsin. Lots of discussion about enthusiasm for Bernie, his large rallies, and his ability to galvanize young voters.

Bill Press, who is very Bernie-friendly, has been given plenty of air time. Hell, he's on the panel--that's a big score!

This is nice. This is refreshing. Wall-to-wall FAIR coverage of Bernie, his amazing YUGE rallies and his thousands of supporters.

One of the commentators just said that Bernie's big leads today, "Are big enough to begin chipping away at Hillary Clinton's lead."

(And a bonus...not one mention of Donald Trump).

[daleanime]

1. No mention of Donald Drumpf?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Nope, not one mention of Trump

[daleanime]

9. ......

[intrepidity]

2. I think they deliberately waited until it was almost a certain Clinton win

and now they are giving Bernie attention to mitigate the inevitable cries (of truth) about how CNN and MSNBC didn't adequately cover Sanders. I think it is complete CYA. They are disgusting.

If they had been covering him like this for the past few months, things could be really different now.

[CoffeeCat]

11. I think CNN's primary-result coverage

had actually been decent and fair. I would give them a B for their same-day coverage of the primaries.

I agree with you, their day-to-day reporting has been abysmal for Bernie. It's been a Bernie blackout, in many respects.

I do think that we're at a very critical, do-or-die moment for the Sanders campaign. This is the linchpin time when Sanders has to win states with large margins, going forward.

CNN could have continued with their tepid Bernie coverage. They could continue to editorialize. It seems like they're being more than fair and providing coverage that could help him going into this critical time.

I think the narrative has changed today. Who knows if this will hold. However, if Sanders continues to win states--and if this narrative continues to be fair and favorable--that could really change the dynamics of this race.

I agree that CNN's overall coverage has been really bad. However, I'll take what's happening now.

[intrepidity]

13. Or maybe they just want a horse race

maybe they thought if they had giving Sanders coverage before, it would have been a blow-out for him? I think it would have been. So they downplayed him and now going into the home stretch, they want the horse race?

[edgineered]

3. They've changed nothing.

From now until April 19th there is nothing happening, that is nothing except WI on the 5th and WY on the 9th. That's 100 pledged delegates total. Expect them to play up the Bernie's on a roll thing for the time being. Come the 19th all the pundits will be trashing Bernie again - you know the stories, wind has left his sails, trouble in the camp, campaign is in disarray. With this will also come the inevitability of Clinton, found new strength, inspired more voters, yada, yada, yada.

[AtomicKitten]

6. Amy Goodman berated the MSM for covering Trump's empty podium w/ Bernie was speaking couple days ago

Seems to have registered.

[TheDormouse]

7. you mean Goodman, right? nt

[AtomicKitten]

8. of course, thanks

[CoffeeCat]

10. Holy buckets...

They were discussing Hillary Clinton's "hawkishness" and Breanna Keilar just said that, "Hillary Clinton is more hawkish than most Democrats."

Jake Tapper chimed in and said, "And also most Republicans."

Wow.

Did someone slip some truth serum into the CNN water cooler?

I mean...we all know it's the truth. They know it's the truth.

You just NEVER heard that said. NEVER.

It's about damn time.

[avaistheone1]

12. Superb!

and Go Bernie!!!