By Brian Hanley
Bernie Sanders is officially catching fire. After delivering two
strong debate performances, the 74 year old Senator dominated nearly
every online poll that asked viewers to choose a winner of the second
Democratic contest. He now holds a commanding lead over Hillary Clinton
in the key state of New Hampshire and continues to gain momentum in
Iowa. Most recently, Sanders won the readers' poll for TIME Person of
the Year by a landslide and scored major endorsements by UFC fighter
Ronda Rousey and rapper-activist Killer Mike. This week, Sanders is on
target to shatter his most monumental record to date: hitting two
million individual, small-dollar contributions, more than any other
presidential candidate in US history.
However, you wouldn't know
that Sanders is making history if you turned on the television. Despite
the Senator's latest accomplishments, he still struggles to garner any
meaningful attention from the mainstream media. ABC World News Tonight,
for example, has allocated a mere 20 seconds to covering the Sanders
campaign, while spending over 80 minutes talking about Donald Trump.
Similarly, CBS set aside just six minutes to covering Sanders and NBC Nightly News spent less than three.
As
Trump storms his way through the primaries, Sanders, by contrast,
tiptoes. Though the Senator continues to attract massive crowds across
the country, he does so quietly, without substantial coverage from the
major networks. The question is, can any candidate, even one as popular
as Sanders, prevail with such limited press? Or will the corporate
media's obsession with Donald Trump overshadow and ultimately undermine
one of the greatest political stories of our time?
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