Many supporters of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have claimed that there is a media blackout in which Bernie Sanders has been for whatever reason blocked from communicating his campaign message. Combined with a dramatically cut democratic debate scheme (from 18 in 2008 with Obama to 4 in 2016 with Sanders) scheduled on days of the week least likely to be viewed by a wide audience this is seen as a significant attempt to rig the primary to ensure Clinton gets the nomination.
Despite a strongly supported petitions with nearly 120 thousand signatories and 30 thousand signatories demanding more debates, Debbie Wassermann Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former campaign co-manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign has repeatedly denied the possibility of considering more debates.
Combined with a complex fiasco earlier in the year dubbed “DataGate” in which the DNC temporarily shut down the Sanders campaign from accessing critical voter information two days before the third debate based information presented by Schultz and refuted by the vendor. Access to the data was quickly restored after a petition demanding action gathered 285 thousand signatures in less than 48 hours.
With these two scandals in mind, Sanders supporters have become increasingly paranoid of what they view as the “establishment” acting to protect its candidate, Hillary. In this light, they have been very frustrated by the lack of media coverage of Sanders. Supporters claim that he and his views are almost entirely unrepresented by the news media.
I have been wary of jumping on this bandwagon. It seems natural that the democratic front-runner would get more coverage than that of a less known rival. Clinton naturally attracts media attention as she seems to have a new scandal every day while Sanders seems to be a boy scout who apart from being jailed for protesting segregation …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com