Sanders and Trump Have One Thing in Common: They hate the media.

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Mostly about Sanders, but interesting.

LOS ANGELES—Rosario Dawson, the actress, was introducing Bernie Sanders to a packed crowd of supporters at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre last week when her speech rounded into familiar themes, and suddenly she began to sound like AM radio. “I think we see what’s going on in the corporate media of late,” Dawson said, drawing sustained and instant boos at the words corporate and media. “The media has given Trump”—more boos—“almost $1.9 billion worth of free media.” More boos still. “They’ve given Bernie Sanders 16 percent of that.” A lot more boos. “And mostly to say that he should just give up”—lots of boos—“how the entire country shouldn’t even bother voting.” Additional boos. “Considering what people had to do in this country for our right to vote, I find that reprehensible.” Wild applause.

Everyone loves to boo the media. There’s nothing new about that. But Dawson’s line of attack wasn’t the usual vague discontent with the trivializing tendencies of the political press. Her criticism, echoing not only the candidate for whom she’s stumping but even the bellowing front-runner for the Republican nomination whom she opposes, was more pointed.

“The corporate media is afraid of losing their jobs,” she went on to say. “They are being told—believe me … anyone who’s a part of that culture understands, there’s an unspoken little hashtag going around that’s saying, ‘Loyalty will be rewarded.’ ”

Saying that mainstream journalists are venal and corrupt in this way isn’t all that different from Trump calling them “lying, disgusting people” or “bloodsuckers.” The Sanders camp generalizes in these sorts of anti-media statements, preferring to point at systemic failures; Trump, meanwhile, personalizes. But both candidates are working from a similar premise here: that the media is another crooked elite institution whose authority has crumbled. Their supporters love this stuff.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/for_bernie_and_trump_the_media_is_just_another_elite_institution_that_s.html

[onecaliberal]

1. The constitution says the 4th estate should inform the people.

It doesn't say 5 conglomerates should own everything and make Obscene profits and lie to people so no one will threaten their money and power.

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3. +1

[Fumesucker]

2. Yeah, we know Hillary loves the M$M

That's why she gives so many interviews and press conferences.

[anotherproletariat]

5. I just joined DU about a month ago, and prior to that, I just assumed that the MSM preferred Bernie.

I was always shocked at how much attention he received, particularly at the beginning of his campaign when he truly was a minor player. It wasn't until I started reading the comments on DU that I discovered that anyone thought the opposite. I will admit to mostly watching MSNBC, but as a Hillary supporter, I still get mad sometimes at the amount of coverage Bernie gets from them. This is one of those things that seems to be in the eye of the beholder.

[Fumesucker]

6. Now imagine you were an O'Malley supporter

Or even worse, a Webb supporter.

[snowy owl]

13. you weren't watching MSNBC- is anybody buying this?

[Old Codger]

20. Maybe in

Some other dimension, not in anything that resembles reality

[daleanime]

4. That's like saying disliking Hillary because of 'Benghazi' is the same as....

disliking Hillary because of Iraq war vote. There seems to be a fundamental difference.

[geek tragedy]

7. social media has emboldened pols to think they can bypass media gatekeepers, certainly has worked

for Trump and Sanders

complaining about the media is a guaranteed applause line

[Fumesucker]

9. Trump hasn't remotely "bypassed" the media, he has played them like a Paganini on a Stradivarius

[geek tragedy]

10. I said he bypassed the gatekeepers, which he has done

he's had a bad week this week, though

[Fumesucker]

12. It's the gatekeepers he's playing

They gave him air time worth hundreds of millions of dollars if he had to go and buy it.

[geek tragedy]

16. there was a hidden cost to that though, it can be found

in his unfavorable ratings

he may hit 80% unfavorable amongst women.

[bemildred]

22. Yes, that's the point, we have credible free-lancers now.

Citizen's United, infotainment, and social media opened it up. No money spigot, nobody paying attention to the State Media Organs as news, and no need to spend money to get the word out.

But I think you still need some name recognition to bootstrap yourself in and something people want to hear.

[PowerToThePeople]

8. Msm is just fascist propaganda

They should be shut down and never allowed to return.

[geek tragedy]

11. okay, this is definitely a parody account nt

[PowerToThePeople]

14. Yours is?

Thanks for letting us know.

[geek tragedy]

17. D4 damager nt

[snowy owl]

15. We need a true public system again like CBC in Canada. Koch Bros. will never allow it.

[PowerToThePeople]

18. Yes. Even pbs sucks after shrub

Gutted it and put his goons in charge.

[snowy owl]

19. Exactly.

[Herman4747]

21. Hillary & Trump have 1 thing in common...

...they hate honesty.

[catnhatnh]

23. Trump hates them when they tell the truth

and Bernie when they lie...