The News Media is influenced by powerful donors and advertisers. The coverage of Bernie Sanders’ National campaign for President has not received fair or accurate attention, and it is difficult to believe that money is not influencing the journalistic angles here.

 

Even if you support another candidate, a transparent and accountable press is necessary for a functioning democracy and this should outrage you.

PLEASE READ, SIGN AND SHARE.

 

Here is a link to an article from “the hill” naming the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and even 10th place finishers in a poll and completely omitting Bernie Sanders’ name.

Here is a link from “Democrats.com” polling data after debate 3 showing Bernie Sanders winning the debate by an overwhelming 14 percentage point margin - better than Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden combined but that information both being obfuscated by them and omitted from any sort of news reporting from them or outside sources. (In fact the shared results act as though Warren “won” the debate and then list the percentage results of places 3rd through 10th)

Here is a link to an MSNBC graphic (from sept 21st) showing “The Contenders” in Iowa with ten candidates but not including Bernie (again, widely considered the 3rd place candidate at minimum).

Here is a link to a CNN.com article claiming that the race has tightened to only two candidates (Biden and Warren), while including a photo of Bernie and mentioning that Bernie and Warren are polling < 2 percentage points of each other, and then calling for “other” candidates to step up and “challenge the top two,” mentioning specifically Pete Buttigieg and not Bernie Sanders. 

To include smaller media outlets, here is a link to a paper called “The Inlander” that has a post of the final contenders and includes “Seth Moulton” but not Bernie Sanders.

To include polling, here is a link to an Emerson Polling article that shows Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden polling evenly at 26% and Elizabeth Warren at 20% (margin of error is only 4.7%) and yet calls it “a statistical tie” between Warren, Biden and Sanders. 

Here is a link to an image including CNN headlines on Bernie Sanders since February.

The final link I am including is to a CNN Video suggesting that Sanders (the third place candidate by their own metrics) should drop out of the race while polling in double digits due to the “Working Families Party” endorsement.

The most outlandish part of this one is the lack of reporting on how WFP decided to make this endorsement. They are refusing to release the votes from the actual members (worth 50% of the decision of whom to endorse, the other 50% coming from a few dozen people in “leadership” positions) and this information has since come out that shows that Elizabeth Warren’s daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, is the chairwoman of a liberal think tank “Demos” that gave $45,000 to WFP this year after never having made prior donations to WFP.

 

There is far more i could report on (the coverage of Bernie Sanders being the first candidate to receive a million individual donors jumps to mind), but it is fairly established that the media narrative is currently either dismissive of, diminishing of, or outright ignoring Bernie Sanders’ campaign for presidency. 

With the fact that the people in control of this industry stand to lose a great deal of either power, money or influence should a Bernie Sanders Presidency occur, it is hard to not draw conclusions that this treatment is intentional.

This petition is designed to get as many signatures as possible in order to attempt to force acknowledgement of the realities of Bernie’s Sanders’ presidential campaign and get national news outlets to acknowledge their lack of reporting on his run. 

As Donald Trump has so successfully proved in this country, yet again, “All publicity is good publicity” and powerful individuals have realized that the best way to quash ideas they do not support is not to engage with them on merit, but to ignore them entirely and use every effort you have to silence their ability to reach that message to the masses.

 

Sign this petition. Do something! Force media outlets to start reporting, be it good or bad, on news. 

 

This is their job as journalists. Bring awareness that they have to do their jobs.