Corporate Media Supression of Positive Coverage for Progressive Views and Candidates
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:00 am
I will often check-in with Politico (ties to the Clintons) or whatever I can access of the NYT or WaPo, not really to read their content, but rather, so I can learn what they are not informing their readers of, and it is significant.
The corporate media is biased toward candidates who they can rely on not to alienate their sponsors - those entities that buy commercial time from them.
I'm offering up this article because the author, Paul Street, has done some work to justify his analysis/opinion.
I'll allow the article to speak for itself. I understand the latitude that most Americans give corporations for "job creation". I just think the argument that jobs will be lost if a candidate such as a Bernie Sanders was supported by the general population is, generally speaking, a red-herring. In fact, a new and fairer treatment of workers and access to needs such as healthcare would, I believe do wonders for our society over the long view. But that's just me. Is it any wonder that the nation’s “liberal†cable news stations CNN and MSNBC can barely contain their disdain for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and even (to a lesser degree) for that of Elizabeth Warren while they promote the nauseating center-right candidacies of the bewildered racist and corporatist Joe Biden, the sinister neoliberal corporate-militarist Pete Butiggieg and even the marginal Wall Street “moderates†Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris? Next time you click on these stations, keep a pen and paper handy to write down the names of the corporations that pay for their broadcast content with big money commercial purchases. I did that at various times of day on three separate occasions last week. Here are the companies I found buying ads at CNN and MSDNC:
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Big corporate lenders certainly have no interest in making college tuition free, a Sanders promise that would slash a major profit source for finance capital. The big health insurance firms are naturally opposed both to the Single Payer national health insurance plan that Sanders puts at the top of his platform and to the milder version of Medicare for All that Warren says she backs. Warren and especially Sanders pledge to remove the parasitic, highly expensive profit motive from health insurance and to make publicly funded quality and affordable health care a human right in the U.S. The corporate insurance mafia is existentially opposed to such human decency. Both of the “progressive Democratic candidates†(a description that fits Sanders far better than it does Warren) loudly promise to slash drug costs, something Pfizer, Abbvie, Amgene, Amphastar, and Abbot Labs can hardly be expected to relish. None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/30 ... able-news/
The corporate media is biased toward candidates who they can rely on not to alienate their sponsors - those entities that buy commercial time from them.
I'm offering up this article because the author, Paul Street, has done some work to justify his analysis/opinion.
I'll allow the article to speak for itself. I understand the latitude that most Americans give corporations for "job creation". I just think the argument that jobs will be lost if a candidate such as a Bernie Sanders was supported by the general population is, generally speaking, a red-herring. In fact, a new and fairer treatment of workers and access to needs such as healthcare would, I believe do wonders for our society over the long view. But that's just me. Is it any wonder that the nation’s “liberal†cable news stations CNN and MSNBC can barely contain their disdain for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and even (to a lesser degree) for that of Elizabeth Warren while they promote the nauseating center-right candidacies of the bewildered racist and corporatist Joe Biden, the sinister neoliberal corporate-militarist Pete Butiggieg and even the marginal Wall Street “moderates†Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris? Next time you click on these stations, keep a pen and paper handy to write down the names of the corporations that pay for their broadcast content with big money commercial purchases. I did that at various times of day on three separate occasions last week. Here are the companies I found buying ads at CNN and MSDNC:
[...]
Big corporate lenders certainly have no interest in making college tuition free, a Sanders promise that would slash a major profit source for finance capital. The big health insurance firms are naturally opposed both to the Single Payer national health insurance plan that Sanders puts at the top of his platform and to the milder version of Medicare for All that Warren says she backs. Warren and especially Sanders pledge to remove the parasitic, highly expensive profit motive from health insurance and to make publicly funded quality and affordable health care a human right in the U.S. The corporate insurance mafia is existentially opposed to such human decency. Both of the “progressive Democratic candidates†(a description that fits Sanders far better than it does Warren) loudly promise to slash drug costs, something Pfizer, Abbvie, Amgene, Amphastar, and Abbot Labs can hardly be expected to relish. None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/30 ... able-news/