Bernie says Trump may be right -- the "media" may be as much our enemy as his!

Consider how little time was given to Sanders's campaign when he ran against Hillary ...

Read what Bernie has to say, which is always the truth:

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/41634-focus-how-corporate-media-threatens-our-democ

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html

$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Donald Trump


By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and KAREN YOURISH   MARCH 15, 2016

Floridatexan wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html

$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Donald Trump


By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and KAREN YOURISH   MARCH 15, 2016

According to this site, for the 2015-2016 campaign, Bernie got 194723 network mentions. Hillary got 651,508. Markle is spewing bullshit again ...
http://television.gdeltproject.org/cgi-bin/iatv_campaign2016/iatv_campaign2016?filter_candidate=HILLARY_CLINTON&filter_network=NATIONAL&filter_timespan=ALL&filter_displayas=RAW

The last part of this interview by Sanders perfectly explains what I've mentioned before, that the media is no more liberal than the corporations who own it.

This is a classic tactic of the right wingers. They have successfully framed this idea about the media in such a way the the phrase "liberal media" has become a household name. Great branding on their part but totally upside-down re reality.

I suppose someone will post a list now of how many news personalities are liberals. Let's all wait for THAT copy and paste, but the reality is that corporations are created to make profits and inconvenient realities such as income/wealth mis-distribution, low wages, poverty levels, lack of universal health care, highest prices for drugs in the world, etc. are not items that are well covered by the corporate media.

I was glad to see Sanders giving credit to the few news outlets who gave him a fair shake and wanted to focus on the issues rather than the "politics as gamesmanship" that so much of the campaign coverage aired.

In 1983, the largest 50 corporations controlled 90 percent of the media. Today, as a result of massive mergers and takeovers, six corporations control 90 percent of what we see, hear, and read. Those six corporations are Comcast, News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. In 2010, the total revenue of these six corporations was $275 billion. In a recent article in Forbes magazine discussing media ownership, the headline appropriately read: “These 15 Billionaires Own America’s News Media Companies.”

No sane person denies that the media plays an enormously important role in shaping public consciousness and determining political outcomes. The current media situation is a very serious threat to our democracy.

The very first amendment to our Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press, the right of the people to express their points of view from the rooftops, to allow themselves to be heard. That is something I passionately believe in.

Unfortunately, as A. J. Liebling wrote back in 1960: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” And the people who own the press, radio and television stations, and book publishing and movie companies are becoming fewer and fewer, with more and more power. This is a crisis that can no longer be ignored.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/41634-focus-how-corporate-media-threatens-our-democ