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Bernie Blackout. An investigative deep dive into the corporate news media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign that asks: who actually gets a say in American politics? Documentary.
- The Bernie Blackout
- Censoring Progressivism: Where’s Bernie?
- Distorting The Polls: The Bernie Shuffle
- Talking Heads: from Bernie Blackout to Bashing Bernie
- Will We Heed Lessons of 2016 in 2020?
“The Bernie blackout is real; it is not just a figment of our imagination. It almost seems like every morning these networks get a script that says ‘blackout Bernie Sanders,’” said the national campaign co-chair of Sanders’s presidential campaign, Nina Turner, on a December 5, 2019, episode of “The Rising.” Indeed, GDELT, a real-time open data glob...
For most of 2019, the corporate press sought to undermine Sanders’s campaign by pretending it did not exist. For example, a Fox Newsheadline noted the first- and third-place candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren respectively, but ignored Sanders who was in second place and added a picture of Pete Buttigieg who was polling in single digits. Simi...
Ignoring Sanders’s candidacy is just one of the ways in which the corporate press has tried to marginalize progressive politics in 2020. They have also taken to employing the same people who were wrong about 2016 to distort the electoral realities of 2020. In April 2019, MSNBCdistorted a poll that found that Sanders had more support among non-white...
As Matt Taibbi noted in his latest book, Hate Inc., news media personalities are paid to act as experts, even when they are ignorant about the subject matter, because studies show that audiences reject uninformed and inarticulate personalities for pundits who appear knowledgeable. The news media’s preference for promoting pundits who appear informe...
In 2020, this kind of framing, bias and propaganda must be stopped. Ultimately, these lowlights from the debate were another distraction from issues that impact people’s lives. Unless primary voters think critically about corporate media talking points, they are susceptible to adopting the neoliberal notions of “electability” and the “right side of...
Bernie Blackout Trailer. An investigative deep dive into the corporate news media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign that asks: who actually gets a say in American politics? BERNIE BLACKOUT, May 13 at 8p on VICE TV. Documentary.
May 13, 2020 · Bernie Blackout, a new VICE TV documentary directed by Pat McGee examining the mainstream media’s alleged bias against the Sanders campaign, is rooted in independent and alternative journalism ...
VICE Versa: Bernie Blackout. 2020. TV-14. Documentary. An investigation into corporate news media coverage of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign asks: who actually gets a say in American politics? Starring: Bernie Sanders. Directed by: Pat McGee. Season 1.
