Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders meets seniors in Manchester, New Hampshire, on October 30, 2015. (Photo: Michael Vadon)
If you feel like you haven’t seen much (or any) news about Bernie Sanders and the Democratic primary race, it’s not just in your head. Over the weekend, the Tyndall Report revealed that mainstream nightly news shows, through the entirety of this year of 2015, have spent only 10 minutes of total coverage on Bernie Sanders, as opposed to 234 minutes of total coverage of Donald Trump.
The weird thing is, that polls show Bernie Sanders easily beats every Republican candidate in a general election, and by more than Hillary Clinton would. But the media refuse to cover Sen. Sanders, and even Hillary Clinton has largely dropped out of the headlines since the Benghazi emails were put to rest.
It could be because Bernie wants to raise the taxes of millionaire network executives, or because Bernie is raising questions about how well we’re being served by media consolidation and the rise of “infotainment” and the death of real “news.”
At least that’s what it’s starting to look like. Even over at the “progressive bastion” of the mainstream media, MSNBC, Jose Diaz-Balart pushed a very recent NBC News poll that found terrorism to be the most important issue to Americans.