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Election Focus 2020: The timing of this poorly sourced and poorly written story, appearing the day of a crucial candidates’ debate and days before the start of the actual primary season on a network that has been hostile to or dismissive of Sanders for years, is a journalistic outrage.
Election Focus 2020: What establishment Democrats are really worried about is their own power in the party, which is threatened by a surging left wing. Don’t look to their establishment media counterparts to report on that transparently.
Election Focus 2020: Establishment Democrats and their big donors are suddenly looking at Elizabeth Warren’s rising polls numbers as a sign that her candidacy has very real potential—and is a very real threat to their power.
Blaming Trump on the Voters Who Voted Against Him… Protesting a President Is Like Nazi Graffiti… Trump Family Paper Demands FBI Go After Dissent… Corporate Media Diversity: From GE to GM… Protecting a Pundit Who Dismissed Trans Rights… Sanders, Warren Don’t Meet WaPo’s Standards for ‘Progressive’
The Washington Post editorial page decided to lecture readers on the meaning of progressivism. The villains are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who, it tells us, “are embracing principles that are not genuinely progressive.”
Edsall finds it alarming that people are objecting to the platforms of political parties, and using identification with a party’s agenda as a gauge of character.
USA Today boasts that most of its “editorials are coupled with an opposing view–a unique USA Today feature.” So you’re getting both sides, is the implication–when in fact what you’re more likely to get is perception management.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius is the latest establishment journalist to launch a salvo against Sen. Elizabeth Warren and “her jihad against Wall Street.”
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced that he sort of could be running for the Republican presidential nomination. Of course, that drew substantial media attention.
To argue that Elizabeth Warren is the left equivalent of Jim DeMint, one must exhibit no interest in the substance of politics.
Media coverage portrays populist Democrats as presenting a “threat” to pragmatic centrism.
New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin has earned a reputation over the years for being friendly with the Wall Street giants he covers. If you read his bizarre rant against Senator Elizabeth Warren, it’s not hard to see why.
Bob Schieffer is right that “a lot of people” think the Democrats should move to the “center”–especially journalists and pundits, who have been saying this for at least 30 years. There’s no reason to think it’s especially good advice, but that doesn’t seem to matter.
One of the most consistent rules in corporate media’s political coverage: If you’re talking about Democrats, you should point out that those who drift too far to the left could find themselves in trouble.
