Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Media Bias Against Democrats-Both Bernie and Hillary

The conservative, corporate media have a definite bias against both Bernie and Hillary which supports the republican party. The media does not do research, investigative reporting or even serious news anymore. This includes Sunday News programs like Face the Nation or Meet the Press. The media is more a gate-keeper and they decide what is on the news or score keeper, give shallow details or stories. The more scandals or fights the better. The media in search of profits has changed greatly how they cover the news and that includes politics. The Corporate media is now involved in the discussions and will promote policies and views that support the news organization and parent company. To have extreme candidates, that support policies that ignore evolution, ignore and deny climate change, promote failed economics tax cuts for the rich, cutting safety net programs or infrastructure, that are seen as serious candidates or never called out. In the past these candidates like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee would be ignored or called out for their stupidity but today they are promoted and given a platform and not just on Fox News. Extreme positions are allowed to be spewed and never questioned. Now some extreme views are called out like Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" but you never saw the media follow up and show how this view is followed by a good many representatives and a strong view in Christian culture. With Bernie, the media calls him the extreme candidate and a clown. He is a democratic socialist and owns the title but the media uses this label to ignore him. They will have him on the news and talk only about the label and not his views. They will exaggerate his views and make him as a clown versus talk about his views. Bernie has had more people show up to his campaign stops than any other 2016 candidate from either side. Bernie has momentum and excitement and the regular news is treating him poorly as a clown. He is running an excellent campaign, using social media, Q & A sessions and the media when he can. He does not shy away from answering tough questions from people or the press. He is doing an excellent job but the media is biased against him. He deserves so much positive media attention and deserves attention more than any republican candidate except maybe Jeb Bush. Let's see the score keeping of Bernie versus Ted or Bernie versus Chris Christie for campaign stops, issues and number of attendees. Hillary is another story altogether. I am of the belief that everything that I hear or see in the press about Hillary is false. The right wing news from Drudge, Breitbart or World News Daily will throw out conspiracy theories, wild stories and they get picked up by the press. Benghazi has been seen as a terrible scandal but with over 5 investigations and another in process, there is no way that Hillary was involved in any way with the deaths, a stand down or even the aftermath. The email scandal and today the rope scandal. The press will just attack Hillary because she is Hillary. I totally understand her not wanting to talk to the press. Does anyone remember the 1990's? The constant attack, the constant press criticism against the Clinton's. The media has agenda and it is not fair to Hillary in any way possible. The idea is to put out wild remarks or "scandals" to hurt her image and her campaign. Citizens United was a movie against Hillary. The media and right wing have a strong agenda to attack, attack Hillary. With the media not doing their job and looking for ratings, this will hurt Hillary. What is the solution? Break up the companies and not allow any mergers in media. Make sure we have more competition and less large media outlets. Make sure media does not control multiple outlets and in different locations. The media as the fourth branch of government has disappeared. The media as journalism has disappeared. I just laugh when I hear the liberal media. It is people just repeating a meme that has no truth in fact.

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