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CNN Has It In for Bernie
The cable news network was consistently biased against Sanders at the seventh Democratic debate, but this could end up further mobilizing his campaign.
The big loser of the night was the network that hosted the event.
CNN was so consistently aligned against Bernie Sanders that it compromised its claim to journalistic neutrality.
Podcaster Katie Halper was also unimpressed with how CNN commentators tried to minimize foreign policy differences between Sanders and Joe Biden.
She tweeted,
“These @cnn commentators are appalling.
They’re making it sound like [S]anders created a false controversy over the foreign policy differences between him and Biden as if it’s not actually an existential distinction between the two of them.”
As my colleague Elie Mystal tweeted,
“Jesus Christ I hate these biased questions from the moderators.
‘How would you keep your plan from bankrupting the country?’
JUST ASK THE KOCH BROTHERS TO MODERATE NEXT TIME!”
There was even anger from non–Sanders supporters who are not hostile to the senator.
Princeton historian Matt Karp tweeted,
“Even as Bernie Sanders has built the largest grassroots campaign in US history—and currently leads the race in Iowa and NH—
the networks still run post-debate panels without a single Bernie-friendly voice.”
HuffPost reporter Zach Carter commented, “CNN’s crew is just straight bashing Sanders post-debate.”
CNN’s treatment of Sanders raises a major problem
that he’s going to have to confront going forward:
Some major players in the mainstream media are clearly unafraid to cover him in a biased and one-sided manner.
The Sanders campaign is a gamble, and
one major uncertainty is whether his base is strong enough to overcome consistently negative media coverage.
https://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-warren-cnn-debate/
As with FB, who gave the major networks the power as King Makers and King Destroyers?
