Robert B. Reich: Why the major media still marginalize Bernie Sanders

[Uncle Joe]

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Since mid-March, Sanders has been on a roll. He has won six out of the seven Democratic primary contests, and he’s won them big, beating Clinton by 40 percentage points or more in Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and Washington. On Tuesday, he took Wisconsin.

The enthusiasm for Sanders isn’t waning. If anything, it’s growing. In Idaho and Alaska, he inspired record-breaking primary turnouts, attracting thousands of new voters. He did the same thing in Colorado, Kansas, Maine and Michigan.

In March, Sanders raised $44 million, a new monthly high for his White House bid. The campaign’s previous fundraising record was set in February, when it raised $43.5 million, compared to Clinton’s $30 million. And most of Sanders’ money has been in small donations — so far, more than 6.5 million contributions from 2 million individual donors.

Sanders is still drawing huge crowds. Last week, 18,500 showed up to hear him speak in the South Bronx.

Young people continue to flock to the Sanders campaign.

Yet if you read the Washington Post or the New York Times, or watch CNN or even MSNBC, or listen to the major pollsters and pundits, you’d come to the same conclusion as my friend.

Every success by Sanders is met with a story or column or talking head whose message is “but he can’t possibly win.”

The real reason the major national media can’t see what’s happening is they exist inside the bubble of establishment politics, centered in Washington, and the bubble of establishment power, centered in New York. So they’re most interested in the personalities of the candidates, and in the people and resources backing them.

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http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/robert-b-reich-why-the-major-media-still-marginalize-bernie/article_e43289d6-060f-5a49-a28c-5ee9e162ed62.html

[Octafish]

1. Democracy is a threat to the Establishment.

That's why they bought the Republican Party way back when.

Imagine Reich's surprise when they started buying our Party.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Precisely, Octafish.

"Democracy is a threat to the Establishment"

Peace to you.

[moondust]

3. They want a corporatist in the WH.

Preferably a dumb one like GWB who can be easily manipulated by the financial gods and the MIC. Bernie is not that person; he is the least likely to be manipulable for the benefit of their stock portfolios.

[beedle]

4. This is all you need to know about the MSM impartiality

[Uncle Joe]

5. Thanks for the addition, beedle.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alfredlord118209.html

Peace to you.