Behind the Media Surge Against Bernie Sanders
From Huffpost: Behind the Media Surge Against Bernie Sanders
After the horrific June 14 shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise and three other participants in a Republican baseball practice, the media floodgates opened for slimy innuendos. Before the day was done, a major supplier of the political sewage was the New York Times, which prominently published a left-blaming article that masqueraded as news reporting.
The media watch group FAIR pointed out that the Times piece started with a false premise and patched together a dodgy piece of innuendo and guilt-by-association in order to place the blame for a shooting in Virginia on the most ardent supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
It would be a mistake to think that the Times story was only the result of bias inflamed by the grisly shooting spree. A few days earlier, the newspaper had front-paged another news story hostile to grassroots political forces aligned with Bernie ― a de facto editorial masquerading as news coverage, headlined: Democrats in Split-Screen: The Base Wants It All. The Party Wants to Win.
In a bizarre disconnect from electoral reality, the article portrayed a party establishment that had lost election after election, including a cataclysmic loss to Trump, as being about winning. And the article portrayed the partys activist base as interfering with the establishments winning ways.
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Corporate-owned media hostility toward Sanders and the progressive base has been conspicuous and well-documented. That hostility started early in his campaign and never let up, sometimes manifested as giving him scant coverage. When the momentum of the Bernie campaign gained powerful traction as a threat to the corporate order, big media efforts to trash him went over the top.
The article does point out that Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, has revealed his plans for his company, Amazon, to purchase Whole Foods. That is the kind of monopoly ownership that Bernie has always fought.