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It's in the interests of corporate media to ignore what Sanders is talking about. Can we fix that?

Meteor Blades
Daily Kos Staff
Tue Aug 25, 2015 at 02:40 PM PDT


The media aren't ignoring him, just his ideas.

CNN, The Washington Post and a few other media outlets took note Monday that Bernie Sanders made mention of something that's been on his mind for a very long time—the media's general failure to do what ought to be the serious work of covering election campaigns as well as political and economic issues in general. Here's Dan Merica: [ http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/24/politics/bernie-sanders-media-new-hampshire/index.html ]

"The American people, I think, increasingly understand that corporate media is prepared to discuss everything 24 hours a day, seven days a week except the most important issues facing the American people," Sanders said Monday during a town hall in Conway. "Increasingly what media sees campaigns being are soap operas and football games, rather than a serious discussion about the serious issues facing America."

Sanders used similar lines in Salem, New Hampshire, on Sunday night, lamenting the fact that Republican candidate Marco Rubio hitting a child in the head with a football during a trip to Iowa got "more coverage than Marco Rubio's position on Social Security."

Sanders wasn't bellyaching about how he himself has been treated by the media. Speaking with reporters [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/24/bernie-sanders-plays-the-role-of-media-critic-as-well-as-candidate/ ] in Conway after a rally there Monday, he made clear that he didn't think what they have been writing about him is unfair. But he didn't sugarcoat another element of their coverage, or rather the lack of it:

“I want you to talk about and force discussion about climate change,” he said. “Do you think you do that enough? I would like you to force discussion of poverty in America. I have talked over and over and over again that 51 percent of African American kids are unemployed or underemployed. You think that’s an important issue? I do. Are you going to discuss it?”

"So what I am asking you is help me. … The American people want a discussion of the real issues.

No doubt some critics view Sanders' frustration as some kind of campaign gimmick to stir the populist applause from the unexpectedly large audiences he has drawn practically everywhere he has spoken since he began his campaign for the Democratic nomination three months ago Wednesday. They just don't get it.

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