'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock—But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders
A Monday night PBS NewsHour segment on the state of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary highlighted Sen. Amy Klobuchar's new ad campaign in Iowa, the departure of marginal candidates Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak, a tender campaign moment with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden's "No Malarkey" bus tour—but did not once even mention Sen. Bernie Sanders despite recent key endorsements and a surge in the polls.
Sanders' presidential campaign has repeatedly accused the corporate media of ignoring the senator from Vermont, a phenomenon Sanders supporters have dubbed the "Bernie blackout."
The PBS segment, led by NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, offered "a real taste of what Bernie is talking about," Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson wrote Tuesday.
"Remember that Sanders has been #1 in two out of three recent New Hampshire polls, and is currently second in Iowa, ahead of 'frontrunner' Joe Biden," Robinson noted. "Alcindor found time to talk about Joe Sestak and Steve Bullock, plus plenty of candidates struggling to get out of single-digit poll numbers. And yet: not even a photo of Bernie Sanders. Incredible. He's just... erased. He's gone. Bernie who?"
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| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 9, 2019 6:58 PM
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Love the replies to this tweet....
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 4, 2019 8:21 AM
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I thought socialists loved public broadcasting?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 4, 2019 8:34 AM
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Wish the rest of us could forget about this old kook.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 4, 2019 9:32 AM
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Ah, who cares? He'll be dead in 10 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 4, 2019 10:07 AM
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Hold on, was this just one segment on NewsHour, not the whole show? Have they always omitted Sanders from their segments or was this the first time it had happened?
I want to feel sorry for him but HRC received much less news coverage than Sanders or Trump in 2016 and what she received was mostly negative, and he's only getting a fraction of that. Now that the shoe is on the other foot his fans are upset, but in 2016 they loved the media bias.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 4, 2019 12:21 PM
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“Bias” is just a scareword designed to subvert faith in our media institutions.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 4, 2019 12:27 PM
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Sanders will never be President.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 4, 2019 12:30 PM
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Who cares? It's not like he has any chance to be the nominee, or the president.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 4, 2019 12:31 PM
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R8 I don’t think you believe that lie. The Establishment, including it’s jesters the mainstream media we’re ALL about Dump and Hill.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 4, 2019 3:18 PM
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Precisely the sort of thing for which John Cusak called out MSNBC. But you expect it from them. PBS is supposed to be honest and unbiased. Or so they claim at appropriation time.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 4, 2019 4:22 PM
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R14 I’ve learned they were compromised years ago.
It’s shit like this that makes me realize just how truthful Senator Sanders is being about the current state of our country and our government...
Because, you know, people pull this shit and candidates that cannot, you know, WIN.
Bullshit.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 4, 2019 5:51 PM
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*pull this shit on candidates that cannot, you know, WIN.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 4, 2019 5:58 PM
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Can we erase Sanders from the planet as well?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 4, 2019 6:03 PM
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God I can't wait for these Bernie Bros to go away.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 4, 2019 8:19 PM
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I'm not really certain what the gif in r16 has to do with this, but nonetheless I approve.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 4, 2019 9:24 PM
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There’s never been a more useless candidate than Sanders.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 4, 2019 11:05 PM
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And for that, R20, I love you.
FYI, I’m Carly Marshall, Bernie is Hank Marshall, Hillary Clinton is Vince Johnson and the military is The Establishment.
I can relate “Blue Sky” - the TRUEST Best Actress winner EVAH especially for the gays - to almost ANY situation.
Me in 2016 and me now regarding the current state of our government and country.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 4, 2019 11:37 PM
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As atrocious as he is, Donald Trump is correct on “Fake News.”
Add [Italic]PBS News Hour[/italic] to a list of corrupt “news” organizations—ones long-trusted by people who self-identify as Democrats and/or Liberals and/or Progressives—with MSNBC, CNN, [italic]New York Times[/italic], and [italic]Washington Post[/italic].
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 5, 2019 2:55 AM
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[quote]As atrocious as he is, Donald Trump is correct on “Fake News.”
He’s good at distorting the truth to fit his ends.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 5, 2019 4:05 AM
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Duh. The left is just as dirty as the right.
Also: Why be salty that there was coverage of a couple of exiting competitors? That’s so babyish.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 7, 2019 12:14 PM
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PBS is hardly left. It's been Reagan liberal since the 1980s.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 7, 2019 12:46 PM
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It’s disgusting and should be called out by a reputable news organization.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 7, 2019 1:10 PM
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He's all wrong for the part, but I feel he may be the only one of the bunch who could crush Trump in a debate. He's fearless.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 7, 2019 2:04 PM
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R29:
[quote]I feel [Bernie] may be the only one of the bunch who could crush Trump in a debate. He's fearless.
I agree.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 7, 2019 2:35 PM
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Repeat of 2016. Establishment trying to crush Bernie.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 8, 2019 2:31 PM
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R31 No. He was a racist piece of shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 9, 2019 6:58 PM
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