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Bernie Sanders Is Quietly Building a Digital Media Empire
The Vermont senator, whos been comparing corporate television programming to drugs and accusing it of creating a nation of morons since at least 1979 and musing to friends about creating an alternative news outlet for at least as long has spent the last year and a half building something close to a small network out of his office in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.
He understands, but resents, the comparison to the man whos described the news media as the enemy of the people. His take is different, and he has his own plans. [Am I concerned] that people might see me and Trump saying the same thing? Yes, I am, Sanders conceded, leaning back in a leather chair in a conference room in his office on a recent Tuesday, as footage of Mark Zuckerbergs testimony one building over played on TVs throughout his office. Wearing his standard uniform long tie, jacket in need of a few swipes with a lint roller he launched into the critique now familiar to anyone whos watched one of his rallies. My point of view is a very, very different one. My point of view is the corporate media, by definition, is owned by large multinational corporations: their bottom line is to make as much money as they can. They are part of the Establishment. There are issues, there are conflicts of interest in terms of fossil fuel advertising how they have been very, very weak, in terms of climate change. Needless to say, the content he produces is not sponsored by advertisers.
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If you buy Sanderss formulation of What Went Wrong, those campaigns may not have much of a choice if they want to get their message out somehow. His theory of 2016 holds that the corporate medias inability to focus on long-term issues is a big part of how Trump won in the first place.
Because people turn on the television, and theyre working longer hours for lower wages, they dont have health care, their kids cant afford to go to college, and theyre watching TV: Hey! What about me? You know, I dont care that Trump fired somebody else today, what about my life or my kids lives? So what we do, is we look at media in a different sense, we try to figure out what are the issues that impact ordinary people, and how can we provide information to them?
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/bernie-sanders-is-quietly-building-a-digital-media-empire.html
This is a good read.
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Bernie Sanders Is Quietly Building a Digital Media Empire (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Feb 2019
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targetpractice
(4,919 posts)1. Link? n/t
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)2. Done.
Thanks for the catch targetpractice.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)3. I gotchu, Uncle Joe. n/t
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)4. Bernie's Podcast, "The Bernie Sanders Show':
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)5. Thanks for the addition appalachiablue
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)6. Good to see you again