As Examples Mount, Sanders Campaign Accuses Corporate Media of 'Deliberate Attempt to Erase Bernie'

This needs to be exposed and said again and again —  
Never underestimate the power of the capitalist corporate media to spew deadly polarizing propaganda supporting the powerful while trying to crush anyone who threatens the status quo of their pervasive and insidious corporate power. Gratefully more and more of us are waking up and acting out of growing consciousness of the truth and of a higher good. We’re seeing right through this poison of the powerful and refusing to buy what they are selling. We're all in this together. Humanity is capable of evolving. United we can transform ourselves and our world. — Molly

"All of these examples are no accident," said campaign speechwriter David Sirota. "But here's some news: We're not being erased. We're going to win."

By

Jake Johnson

Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign alleged Monday that corporate media outlets are intentionally ignoring—and attempting to undermine—the Vermont senator's significant gains in recent polls with "cartoonishly inaccurate" reporting and headlines.

"In the last week, a wave of polls has emerged showing a genuine, full-on Bernie surge—but you might not know that if you tuned into cable TV or read the headlines from the national press corps," Sanders speechwriter David Sirota wrote in the campaign's Bern Notice newsletter. "In fact, you might not even know Bernie is running for president."

Sirota highlighted what he described as a widening "divide between The Actual Polls and The Media's Manufactured Narrative."

The polls, Sirota noted, show Sanders is leading in New Hampshire, in second place and gaining momentum (pdf) in Iowa, in second place and surging in the key battleground state of Michigan, and the only 2020 Democrat leading President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

"Despite all this data, many in the national press corps continued to both inaccurately report the polling results—and also pretend Bernie doesn't exist," wrote Sirota, who pointed to several flagrant examples that he said are part of a pattern of media outlets attempting to "ignore and derail" the Sanders campaign's momentum....

The Vermont senator in August also called out what he described as biased coverage of the campaign by the Washington Post, owned by world's richest man and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

"We've said from the start that we will have to take on virtually the entire media establishment in this campaign, and so far that has proven to be true," Sanders tweeted at the time. "Ok. Fine. We are ready."

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