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People seem to be noticing that Bernie Sanders is either getting a hard time in the media, or he seems to be being ignored, even in the supposedly left media.

This illustrates the proposition that there is no mainstream left-wing media in the US, whatever Fox and its friends declare. To reiterate a point: all mainstream US media is corporately owned, and depends on corporate advertising. It is necessarily corporately controlled and will rarely challenge the interests of its owners and sponsors.

If people can recognise there is no left wing media, then it becomes obvious the media will not treat Mr Sanders well. After all, they could not even bring themselves, in general, to treat Hilary Clinton particularly well, and they participated gleefully in spreading and repeating Republican slurs against her for thirty years. And Hilary Clinton was only a moderate threat to corporate power.

This hostility is nothing to do with the Democrat establishment. It is a fact of life over which they have no control.

From their point of view, the media hostility towards Sanders would become part of his campaign. The hostility is such that Democrats could well decide that it is not worth the risk, unless they were shown otherwise by massive voting for Sanders, and a massive grass roots campaign. People tell me he has the latter, but it may not be enough to get votes from Democrats in the primaries – we do not know yet.

While it seems probable that the media would be hostile and dismissive if Sanders won the nomination – we can guarantee that if he does not get the nomination, the media sphere will be full of stories about how he was betrayed, not by the media (which will not be mentioned), but by the Democrat establishment, so as to try and convince left-inclined people to vote for a third party candidate and put Trump back in, who will then continue his moves to destroy the ecology, destroy health care, destroy protest, destroy the constitution, make money for himself, and have a war.

On the other side, if Sanders wins the Presidency, then the hostile media may have given Sanders useful experience for dealing with a hostile congress and Senate, when the Reps get voted back in.

Tags: Disinformation, politics

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