We've known about Hillary's top-down big name superdelegates and Super-PAC and big donor resources. But she has had a powerful card up her sleeve that the media hasn't discussed. That's because that card IS the media-- the mainstream, corporate media have uniformly lined up to sell Hillary's performance in the first debate as a win, to sell her as towering over the field, strong, presidential, bold and progressive. There was a surfeit of superlatives.
It doesn't matter which network on mainstream newspaper you read. They're all saying Hillary won. As I write this Comcast/MSNBC has Hillary supporter LA Former Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa extolling her wonderfulness. Time Magazine and CNN both headline Hillary as the winner, even though their own post-debate user polls show that Bernie Sanders massively won over Clinton.
And check out this article: 7 Major Headlines: Clinton Clearly Winning the MSM War!
My point is the big money, megacorporation owned networks and big media are attempting to shape the primary election from the top down. They are attempting to tell viewers the results of the debate.
Donors, superdelegates and a lock on the MSM gives Hillary a top-down trifecta. But it may not be enough to beat Bernie.
The problem is there were many post-debate polls. Hundreds of thousands of people responded. While they are not scientific they do reflect bottom-up supporter energy. See my article here: Sanders Crushes in EVERY Post Debate Poll -- 7 Different Poll Results I had grabbed the results an hour or two after the debate But hundreds of thousands of additional people voted in the polls.
RT @AtBestIsKorny: Polls show the people believe @BernieSanders won #DemDebate, trust the people not mainstream media! #FeelTheBern http://… at
— IL9th Distr 4 Bernie (@IL9CD4Bernie) October 14, 2015Oddly I can't find the CNN poll this morning. It seems to have disappeared. (If any readers can find it, please post the link in the comments.)
RT @a1exkap: @CNN pulled their own Facebook poll after results indicated @BernieSanders won the debate. #DemDebate http://t.co/oKWdNmXiWf at http://t.co/oKWdNmXiWf
— Stephen Bell (@atstephenbell) October 14, 2015What can we conclude from this mainstream media "situation?"
We have started to see the Clinton campaign surrogates trying out the Howard Dean scream attack on Bernie Sanders already. Pundits and anchors have described Sanders as shouting.
RT @CapehartJ: Mommy, why's he yelling? #sanders #DemDebate at
— Backstorymom1 (@Backstorymom1) October 13, 2015One bottom-up way to help the campaign is to share articles that point out what the MSM is doing. The mainstream media have obligations. Networks that use the airwave licenses they've been granted have an obligation to truth. All media have an obligation to democracy and truth. They are failing betraying readers and viewers by their biased coverage. They deserve to lose the trust of the masses. Letting your friends and followers on Facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit, blogs, listserves, etc. can offer some balance to the bogus narrative being peddled by the MSM.
I don't have the time to do it, but it would be interesting to research the pundits calling the first debate a wain, to see which of them have donated to or endorsed Hillary.
