By Jim Hightower
Let's go to the scoreboard to see who's winning the exciting game of "Presidential Election Media Coverage."
A non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the
nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC reports that Trump is
tromp, tromp, tromping over the airtime of everyone else. From last
January thought November, these dominant flagship news shows devoted 234
minutes of prime-time coverage to the incessant chirping of the
Yellow-Crested Birdbrain, with no other contender getting even a fourth
of that.
Take Democrat Bernie Sanders, who's stunning the political
establishment with a fiery populist campaign that's drawing record
crowds. Indeed, Sanders' upstart campaign is getting higher poll ratings
in the Democratic contest than Trump is getting in GOP race. And – get
this – polls also show Bernie topping The Donald by 10 points if they
face each other in November's presidential showdown. So surely he's
getting a proportional level of media coverage by the networks on our
public airwaves, right?
Ha, just kidding! The ABC, CBS, NBC devotion of 234 minutes to
all-things-Trump was "balanced" by less than 10 minutes for Sanders.
Most egregious, was ABC, the Disney-owned network. ABC's "World New
Tonight" awarded 81 minutes of national showtime to Trump last year –
and for Bernie: 20 seconds.
How self-serving of the media moguls! The one candidate who is
effectively rallying large numbers of voters to oppose the rise of
corporate oligarchy – including in the media – has the plug pulled on
him. Of course, this only amplifies the truth of what Sanders is saying
about the villainy of corporate profiteers, and it fuels a greater
determination by his millions of grassroots supporters to end the reign
of greed in America. For information and action, go to www.BernieSanders.com
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