Sanders’ Convention Speech Attacked by NYT for Advocating Popular Policies
The specific policies the New York Times scolds Bernie Sanders for promoting don’t seem to be particularly unpopular, with moderates or anyone else.
You’d Scowl, Too, if Media Covered You Like Bernie Sanders
The New York Times demonstrates once again how the lens through which corporate media view progressive politicians colors their coverage.
NYT’s Post-Mortems for Sanders’ Campaign Helped Pull the Plug
Election Focus 2020: With only about half the states having cast their votes in the Democratic primaries, the Covid-19 pandemic has frozen the majority of campaign activity, but the New York Times has already chosen its winner.
Thank you, Bernie. Screw You, New York Times.
Election Focus 2020: In the New York Times’ world, it’s apparently OK to bemoan a society and an economy that privileges the rich over the poor, but it’s unacceptable to run for the presidency on a promise to reverse those priorities.
NYT Writes Post-Mortems for a Sanders Campaign It Did Its Best to Kill
Election Focus 2020: With only about half the states having cast their votes in the Democratic primaries, the Covid-19 pandemic has frozen the majority of campaign activity, but the New York Times has already chosen its winner.
Media Silent as Poll Workers Contract Covid-19 at Primaries That DNC, Biden Campaign Claimed Were Safe
Election Focus 2020: After the CDC on March 15 advised the public to cancel all gatherings of more than 50 people, a senior adviser to Joe Biden went on CNN and claimed the CDC had deemed in-person voting safe. And not a single major media outlet reported on it.
How Corporate Media ‘Factchecked’ Biden’s Calls for Social Security Cuts Into Oblivion
Election Focus 2020: At the start of the Democratic primaries, the Sanders campaign utilized Biden’s long history of supporting cuts to popular entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security to devastating effect, so it’s no surprise that corporate media worked overtime to nullify one of the Sanders campaign’s strongest arguments.
Who Wants a Revolution? No One Who Owns a Major Media Outlet
Election Focus 2020: With a sudden turnaround in the race after Super Tuesday that finds Joe Biden in the lead both in polls and delegates, corporate media have been quick to spin the reversal as a rejection of progressive politics.
Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism
Election Focus 2020: News organizations seemed unable to process that a major national political figure could say something positive about a socialist country, leaving these outlets flailing around in absurd ways.
News Flash! Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism
Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism. In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. CNBC (1/22/20) ran an article headlined, “BP’s CEO Chides AOC and Bernie […]
As Democrats Began to Vote, Pundits Hit the Panic Button
Election Focus 2020: The real Sanders attack machine isn’t the mythical machine run by Sanders to take down his opponents; it’s run by the establishment Democrats and their media counterparts to take down Sanders.
Bernie Sanders Can’t Win (by as Much) Unless Youth Vote Surges (Like It Recently Has)
Election Focus 2020: Even when you assume that Bernie Sanders supporters won’t vote as much as they say they will, and will vote when they say they won’t, Sanders still wins
Bernie Sanders Plunges to First Place
Election Focus 2020: While some coverage is still stuck in denial on Bernie Sanders, for the most part corporate media have moved on to the next stage of grieving, which is anger.
‘Corporate Media Are Not Observers of the Electoral Process; They Are Participants’
Election Focus 2020: “The Democratic electorate has been told, in no uncertain terms, that Bernie Sanders is not electable and that is your signal, people, that you should not vote for him, because the punditocracy has spoken.”
For Media in New Hampshire, Losing Is Winning and Winning Is Losing
Election Focus 2020: The “stop Bernie at all costs” mentality explains why some of the media simply ignored Sanders’ victory altogether, part of a longstanding Bernie blackout strategy.
News Flash: Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism
Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism. In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. Just as the press are keen for you to know that […]
Corporate Media Are the Real ‘Sanders Attack Machine’
Election Focus 2020: The real Sanders attack machine isn’t the mythical machine run by Sanders to take down his opponents; it’s run by the establishment Democrats and their media counterparts to take down Sanders.
It’s Media—Not Bernie Sanders—That Have an Antisemitism Problem
Election Focus 2020: While media express concern about the use of antisemitic tropes by the left, they seem oblivious that their own discussions of the Sanders campaign might evoke them.
Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat
Election Focus 2020: If they were an absurd stretch in 2016, efforts to make a Sanders/Trump equivalence today are even more desperate and disingenuous.
The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation
Election Focus 2020: CNN’s blatant insertion of its own point of view into the presidential debate doesn’t reflect a mere personal dislike of Bernie Sanders, but rather a consistent ideological orientation.
