[blind-democracy] Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours

  • From: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:00:19 -0500

WNYC also did a piece that was very critical of Sanders' response to
Anderson Cooper's question about how the candidates can understand what it
is like to be black. I heard his response, and I also heard the negative
response of an educated black woman to what he said. However, I thought that
what he said was applicable to the majority of African American people in
this country. It had to do with class and discrimination. I'm not sure that
any white person could have answered in a way that would have been
satisfactory to all of the black people who live in this country. It was a
loaded question.
Miriam 
 
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Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
By Adam Johnson [1] / FAIR [2] 
March 8, 2016 
In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative
stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday,
March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday, March 7-a window that includes the crucial
Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, and the next morning's spin:
.       March 6, 10:20 PM: Bernie Sanders Pledges the US Won't Be No. 1 in
Incarceration. He'll Need to Release Lots of Criminals [3]
.       March 7, 12:39 AM: Clinton Is Running for President. Sanders Is
Doing Something Else [4]
.       March 7, 4:04 AM: This Is Huge: Trump, Sanders Both Using Same
Catchphrase [5]
.       March 7, 4:49 AM: Mental Health Patients to Bernie Sanders: Don't
Compare Us to the GOP Candidates [6]
.       March 7, 6:00 AM: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking': Bernie Sanders Shuts
Down Hillary Clinton, Repeatedly [7]
.       March 7, 9:24 AM:  Bernie Sanders's Two Big Lies About the Global
Economy [8]
.       March 7, 8:25 AM: Five Reasons Bernie Sanders Lost Last Night's
Democratic Debate [9]
.       March 7, 8:44 AM: An Awkward Reality for Bernie Sanders: A Strategy
Focused on Whiter States [10]
.       March 7, 8:44 AM: Bernie Sanders Says White People Don't Know What
It's Like to Live in a 'Ghetto.' About That. [11]
.       March 7, 11:49 AM: The NRA Just Praised Bernie Sanders - and Did Him
No Favors in Doing So [12]
.       March 7, 12:55 PM: Even Bernie Sanders Can Beat Donald Trump [13]
.       March 7, 1:08 PM: What Bernie Sanders Still Doesn't Get About
Arguing With Hillary Clinton [14]
.       March 7, 1:44 PM: Why Obama Says Bank Reform Is a Success but Bernie
Sanders Says It's a Failure [15]
.       March 7,  2:16 PM: Here's Something Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders Have
in Common: And the Piece of the Argument That Bernie Doesn't Get Quite
Right. [16]
.       March 7, 3:31 PM: 'Excuse Me!': Bernie Sanders Doesn't Know How to
Talk About Black People [17]
.       March 7, 3:54 PM: And the Most Partisan Senator of 2015 Is . Bernie
Sanders! [18]
All of these posts paint his candidacy in a negative light, mainly by
advancing the narrative that he's a clueless white man incapable of winning
over people of color or speaking to women. Even the one article about
Sanders beating Trump implies this is somehow a surprise-despite the fact
that Sanders consistently out-polls Hillary Clinton [19] against the New
York businessman.
There were two posts in this time frame that one could consider neutral:
"These Academics Say Bernie Sanders' College Plan Will Be a Boon for
African-American Students, Will It? [20]" and "Democratic Debate: Clinton,
Sanders Spar Over Fracking, Gun Control, Trade and Jobs [21]." None could be
read as positive.
While the headlines don't necessarily reflect all the nuances of the text,
as I've noted before, only 40 percent of the public reads past the headlines
[22], so how a story is labeled is just as important, if not more so, than
the substance of the story itself.
The Washington Post was sold in 2013 to libertarian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,
who isworth [23] approximately $49.8 billion.
Despite being ideologically opposed to the Democratic Party (at least in
principle), Bezos has enjoyed friendly ties with both the Obama
administration and the CIA. As Michael Oman-Reagan notes, Amazon was awarded
a $16.5 million contract [24] with the State Department the last year
Clinton ran it. Amazon also has over $600 million [25] in contracts with the
Central Intelligence Agency, an organization Sanders said he wanted to
abolish in 1974, and still says he "had a lot of problems with [26]." FAIR
has previously criticized [27] theWashington Post for failing to disclose,
when reporting on tech giant Uber, that Bezos also owns more than $1 billion
in Uber stock.
The Washington Post's editorial stance has been staunchly [28] anti-Sanders
[29], though the paper contends that its editorial board is entirely
independent of both Bezos and the paper's news reporting.
 
 
 
Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter at
@adamjohnsonnyc [30].
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Source URL:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/washington-post-ran-16-negative-storie
s-bernie-sanders-16-hours
Links:
[1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/adam-johnson-0
[2] http://www.fair.org
[3]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/bernie-sanders-ple
dges-the-u-s-wont-be-no-1-in-incarceration-hell-need-to-release-lots-of-crim
inals/
[4]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/07/clinton-is-
running-for-president-sanders-is-doing-something-else/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
[5]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-huge-trump-sanders-both-usin
g-same-catchphrase/2016/03/07/4a5b0410-e443-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.htm
l
[6]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/07/mental-health-
patients-to-bernie-sanders-dont-compare-us-to-the-gop-candidates/
[7]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/excuse-me-im-talki
ng-bernie-sanders-shuts-down-hillary-clinton-repeatedly/
[8]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/07/bernie-sanderss-
two-big-lies-about-the-global-economy/
[9]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/07/da
ily-202-five-reasons-bernie-sanders-lost-last-night-s-democratic-debate/56dc
f1e6981b92a22d730a5d/
[10]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-awkward-reality-for-bernie-sander
s-a-strategy-focused-on-whiter-states/2016/03/07/311ad3e4-e412-11e5-b0fd-073
d5930a7b7_story.html
[11]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/bernie-sanders-say
s-white-people-dont-know-what-its-like-to-live-in-a-ghetto-about-that/
[12]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/the-nra-just-prais
ed-bernie-sanders-and-did-him-no-favors-in-doing-so/
[13]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/07/even-bernie-sanders-c
an-beat-donald-trump-according-to-math/
[14]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/what-bernie-sander
s-still-doesnt-get-about-interrupting-hillary-clinton/
[15] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/07/doddfrank0308/
[16]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/07/heres-something-ted-c
ruz-and-bernie-sanders-have-in-common/
[17]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/07/excuse-me-b
ernie-sanders-doesnt-know-how-to-talk-about-black-people/
[18]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/and-the-most-parti
san-senator-of-2015-is-bernie-sanders/
[19]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_t
rump_vs_sanders-5565.html
[20]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/07/these-academic
s-say-bernie-sanderss-college-plan-will-be-a-boon-for-african-american-stude
nts-will-it/
[21]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-sanders-poised-for-showdown-
in-city-reeling-under-a-lead-water-crisis/2016/03/06/eb3b67b4-e17b-11e5-846c
-10191d1fc4ec_story.html
[22]
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/
how-americans-get-news/
[23] http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/
[24]
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/bezos-secretary-clinton-announce-amazon-kindleu
s-gov-deal/
[25]
http://blackbag.gawker.com/amazon-is-the-scariest-part-of-the-cias-new-amazo
n-clo-1605847721
[26]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/24/sanders_i_no_longer_want_t
o_abolish_the_cia_but_i_have_a_lot_of_problems_with_their_activities.html
[27]
http://fair.org/home/bezos-stake-in-uber-goes-under-the-radar-at-washington-
post/
[28]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-fiction-filled-campa
ign/2016/01/27/cd1b2866-c478-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html
[29]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-sanders-needs-to-come-clean-about
-the-funding-for-his-health-care-plan/2016/01/19/efeed13a-bece-11e5-9443-707
4c3645405_story.html
[30] https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc
[31] mailto:corrections@xxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=Typo on Washington Post Ran 16
Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
[32] http://www.alternet.org/
[33] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
 
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Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
By Adam Johnson [1] / FAIR [2] 
March 8, 2016 
In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative
stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday,
March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday, March 7-a window that includes the crucial
Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, and the next morning's spin:
.       March 6, 10:20 PM: Bernie Sanders Pledges the US Won't Be No. 1 in
Incarceration. He'll Need to Release Lots of Criminals [3] 
.       March 7, 12:39 AM: Clinton Is Running for President. Sanders Is
Doing Something Else [4] 
.       March 7, 4:04 AM: This Is Huge: Trump, Sanders Both Using Same
Catchphrase [5] 
.       March 7, 4:49 AM: Mental Health Patients to Bernie Sanders: Don't
Compare Us to the GOP Candidates [6] 
.       March 7, 6:00 AM: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking': Bernie Sanders Shuts
Down Hillary Clinton, Repeatedly [7] 
.       March 7, 9:24 AM: Bernie Sanders's Two Big Lies About the Global
Economy [8] 
.       March 7, 8:25 AM: Five Reasons Bernie Sanders Lost Last Night's
Democratic Debate [9] 
.       March 7, 8:44 AM: An Awkward Reality for Bernie Sanders: A Strategy
Focused on Whiter States [10] 
.       March 7, 8:44 AM: Bernie Sanders Says White People Don't Know What
It's Like to Live in a 'Ghetto.' About That. [11] 
.       March 7, 11:49 AM: The NRA Just Praised Bernie Sanders - and Did Him
No Favors in Doing So [12] 
.       March 7, 12:55 PM: Even Bernie Sanders Can Beat Donald Trump [13] 
.       March 7, 1:08 PM: What Bernie Sanders Still Doesn't Get About
Arguing With Hillary Clinton [14] 
.       March 7, 1:44 PM: Why Obama Says Bank Reform Is a Success but Bernie
Sanders Says It's a Failure [15] 
.       March 7, 2:16 PM: Here's Something Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders Have
in Common: And the Piece of the Argument That Bernie Doesn't Get Quite
Right. [16] 
.       March 7, 3:31 PM: 'Excuse Me!': Bernie Sanders Doesn't Know How to
Talk About Black People [17] 
.       March 7, 3:54 PM: And the Most Partisan Senator of 2015 Is . Bernie
Sanders! [18]
All of these posts paint his candidacy in a negative light, mainly by
advancing the narrative that he's a clueless white man incapable of winning
over people of color or speaking to women. Even the one article about
Sanders beating Trump implies this is somehow a surprise-despite the fact
that Sanders consistently out-polls Hillary Clinton [19] against the New
York businessman.
There were two posts in this time frame that one could consider neutral:
"These Academics Say Bernie Sanders' College Plan Will Be a Boon for
African-American Students, Will It? [20]" and "Democratic Debate: Clinton,
Sanders Spar Over Fracking, Gun Control, Trade and Jobs [21]." None could be
read as positive.
While the headlines don't necessarily reflect all the nuances of the text,
as I've noted before, only 40 percent of the public reads past the headlines
[22], so how a story is labeled is just as important, if not more so, than
the substance of the story itself.
The Washington Post was sold in 2013 to libertarian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,
who isworth [23] approximately $49.8 billion.
Despite being ideologically opposed to the Democratic Party (at least in
principle), Bezos has enjoyed friendly ties with both the Obama
administration and the CIA. As Michael Oman-Reagan notes, Amazon was awarded
a $16.5 million contract [24] with the State Department the last year
Clinton ran it. Amazon also has over $600 million [25] in contracts with the
Central Intelligence Agency, an organization Sanders said he wanted to
abolish in 1974, and still says he "had a lot of problems with [26]." FAIR
has previously criticized [27] theWashington Post for failing to disclose,
when reporting on tech giant Uber, that Bezos also owns more than $1 billion
in Uber stock.
The Washington Post's editorial stance has been staunchly [28] anti-Sanders
[29], though the paper contends that its editorial board is entirely
independent of both Bezos and the paper's news reporting.
 
Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter at
@adamjohnsonnyc [30].
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Source URL:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/washington-post-ran-16-negative-storie
s-bernie-sanders-16-hours 
Links:
[1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/adam-johnson-0
[2] http://www.fair.org
[3]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/bernie-sanders-ple
dges-the-u-s-wont-be-no-1-in-incarceration-hell-need-to-release-lots-of-crim
inals/
[4]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/07/clinton-is-
running-for-president-sanders-is-doing-something-else/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
[5]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-huge-trump-sanders-both-usin
g-same-catchphrase/2016/03/07/4a5b0410-e443-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.htm
l
[6]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/07/mental-health-
patients-to-bernie-sanders-dont-compare-us-to-the-gop-candidates/
[7]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/excuse-me-im-talki
ng-bernie-sanders-shuts-down-hillary-clinton-repeatedly/
[8]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/07/bernie-sanderss-
two-big-lies-about-the-global-economy/
[9]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/07/da
ily-202-five-reasons-bernie-sanders-lost-last-night-s-democratic-debate/56dc
f1e6981b92a22d730a5d/
[10]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-awkward-reality-for-bernie-sander
s-a-strategy-focused-on-whiter-states/2016/03/07/311ad3e4-e412-11e5-b0fd-073
d5930a7b7_story.html
[11]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/bernie-sanders-say
s-white-people-dont-know-what-its-like-to-live-in-a-ghetto-about-that/
[12]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/the-nra-just-prais
ed-bernie-sanders-and-did-him-no-favors-in-doing-so/
[13]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/07/even-bernie-sanders-c
an-beat-donald-trump-according-to-math/
[14]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/what-bernie-sander
s-still-doesnt-get-about-interrupting-hillary-clinton/
[15] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/07/doddfrank0308/
[16]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/07/heres-something-ted-c
ruz-and-bernie-sanders-have-in-common/
[17]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/07/excuse-me-b
ernie-sanders-doesnt-know-how-to-talk-about-black-people/
[18]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/and-the-most-parti
san-senator-of-2015-is-bernie-sanders/
[19]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_t
rump_vs_sanders-5565.html
[20]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/07/these-academic
s-say-bernie-sanderss-college-plan-will-be-a-boon-for-african-american-stude
nts-will-it/
[21]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-sanders-poised-for-showdown-
in-city-reeling-under-a-lead-water-crisis/2016/03/06/eb3b67b4-e17b-11e5-846c
-10191d1fc4ec_story.html
[22]
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/
how-americans-get-news/
[23] http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/
[24]
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/bezos-secretary-clinton-announce-amazon-kindleu
s-gov-deal/
[25]
http://blackbag.gawker.com/amazon-is-the-scariest-part-of-the-cias-new-amazo
n-clo-1605847721
[26]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/24/sanders_i_no_longer_want_t
o_abolish_the_cia_but_i_have_a_lot_of_problems_with_their_activities.html
[27]
http://fair.org/home/bezos-stake-in-uber-goes-under-the-radar-at-washington-
post/
[28]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bernie-sanderss-fiction-filled-campa
ign/2016/01/27/cd1b2866-c478-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html
[29]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-sanders-needs-to-come-clean-about
-the-funding-for-his-health-care-plan/2016/01/19/efeed13a-bece-11e5-9443-707
4c3645405_story.html
[30] https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc
[31] mailto:corrections@xxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=Typo on Washington Post Ran 16
Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
[32] http://www.alternet.org/
[33] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B


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