Study: TV News Hides Radicalism of 2020 Democratic Candidates

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This is news? It would be news if the media was objective and They’ve been the public relations arm for the hard left for the past 50 years.

Study: TV News Hides Radicalism of 2020 Democratic Candidates

By Rich Noyes | Newsbusters | June 18, 2019:

There are already two notable facts about the 2020 Democratic primary race: 1) these candidates have championed some of the most radical policy proposals ever seen in American politics; and 2) the broadcast network have essentially suppressed this news.

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MRC analysts reviewed all coverage of the 2020 Democrats on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs from January 1 through June 15. Early as it is, the Democrats have already been featured or mentioned in a total of 220 evening news stories, or nearly four hours (222 minutes) of airtime.

It’s at this stage of the nomination contest, as each candidate begins their campaign, that we see the most journalistically-assigned labels, as reporters try to help viewers pigeonhole each newly-announced wannabe’s place on the ideological spectrum. Yet the vast majority of this year’s coverage (202 stories, or 92%) has failed to include any ideological label.

The labels that reporters have used have tended to the mild side: Ten uses of “progressive,” three of “liberal,” three “centrist,” two “moderate,” and one “populist” used by CBS to describe Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ platform back on March 2.

Despite his long record of extreme positions, no reporter apparently felt comfortable calling Bernie Sanders a “socialist,” although there were four occasions when the networks confided he was a “self-described Democratic socialist,” a word choice that ensured viewers knew the Vermont Senator embraced the term. Talking with Sanders last week about his plan for a complete government takeover of health insurance (marketed with the positive spin of “Medicare-for-all”), NBC’s Harry Smith refused to characterize the plan himself, but told Sanders “the word that will come from Republicans is ‘socialism.’”

Sanders scoffed: “This is not a socialist program. You know what is a socialist program? It’s the Veteran’s Administration. You know what is a socialist program? Your police department. Your fire department. Those are government-run programs.”

Neither Sanders nor any of the other Democrats were ever tagged with labels suggesting they were outside the mainstream: “extreme,” “radical,” “fringe,” “far-left,” “ultra-liberal” or “ultra-left,” even though variations of many of these terms (“far-right,” “ultra-conservative,” and “kamikaze conservative”) have been used to describe GOP presidential candidates with far more mainstream positions.

Yet this is a group which includes candidates who have proposed audaciously radical policies such as (just a sample): “free” health care, “free” child care, “free” college, massive forgiveness of student loans, reparations for the descendants of slaves, the growth-smothering regulations of the “Green New Deal,” doubling the federal minimum wage, tearing down existing barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border, refusing to appoint any pro-life judges, increasing the Supreme Court to 15 members and eliminating the Electoral College in a blatant attempt to give blue-state Democrats even more power.

The “progressive” and “liberal” labels were affixed to only five candidates: Sanders, Elizabeth Warren (NBC’s Kristin Welker touted to her as a “liberal firebrand”), Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand. “Moderate” and “centrist” tags were employed for Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Tim Ryan, while the rest of the field was spared any ideological labeling.

(Despite the “moderate” tag, Biden’s lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union is scarcely higher than the socialist Sanders: 12.7% for the former Vice President, vs. 6.8% for the Vermont Senator.)

Even as the networks downplayed the 2020 Democrats’ far-leftism, they eagerly touted adjectives describing the candidates’ race, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity, applauding the group as “crowded and diverse,” “historically diverse,” and the “most diverse” group ever to run. MRC’s Bill D’Agostino has compiled a few of these examples:

 

 

The networks have a long history of painting mainstream conservative policies as radical or outside-the-mainstream. Now that they have a huge crop of Democratic politicians pushing radical ideas that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago, their ideological label-maker is nowhere to be found.

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Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago

From my perspective the fourth estate has lost it right to complain when those people, who are right and reasonable thinkers, refer to them as “fake news.” It is laughable when the New York Times claims a “holier that thou” attitude, when it continues to slant news negatively as to the Trump presidency. One can only hope that the electing public sees through the bias and prejudice of the news media, TV and paper, and that the results are that the democrats lose badly at the next election, and that those people out there who can see through the garbage being thrown at them by the biased media are sufficient in number to vote to turn this country around before it is too late.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
4 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

Indeed Dennis. Regarding the “electing public” seeing through bias and prejudice, to this poster it is more of a hope than an expectation. With reasonable, rational people voting, expect far lefties to get trounced in 2020, and constitutional responsibility returned to the halls of Congress. I would be dishonest if I expected this outcome.

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

I’m not optimistic just seeing and talking to people on the street.
The public is being hammered with anti-Trump rhetoric day in and day out.

It is a well documented fact that the news media is progressive in orientation.

Perhaps alternate media, such as talk radio and some aspects of the internet are more conservative, but social media multinationals are doing everything they can to silence a conservative viewpoint, even using algorithms to scrub internet content.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Sad, but TRUE Mark!!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

Yes all patriotic organizations are vilified by all the leftist MSM members ☭NN, AB☭, NB☭, ☭BS, MSNB☭, ☭NB☭, N卐R, WaP0S, Hu卐卐P0S, MEDIA MAL卐RACTICE and THE NY SLIMES.

This vile MSM group along with Facebook, Twitter, the DNC, e/GOP, DOJ, FBI, IRS, CAIR, BLM are engaged in SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY, at the very least, if not out right TREASON!

18 U.S. Code § 2384. Seditious conspiracy
U.S. Code

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Passed by Congress and called “Covering the Ass”!!

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
4 years ago

I notice most apropos word of all is also not mentioned – Communist!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

It’s not hard to tell you how communist and radical they are. They actually will TELL YOU what they are going to do once in office. You just have to listen carefooly.

But all of them up there are RUBBISH.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

enemy inside

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev
Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
4 years ago

Sanders is right, the Police for example is government-run. But that’s the reason why it is so important that the government is credible & not supportive of the unjust Muhammadist ideology.
The government must assist people in their needs, support the cultivation of ecological best quality basics, assist to self-realisation, be based on truth, justice, ecology, love, friendliness, imperialism, American English & healthy food (see Draxe.com).

Blackmagikwolf Richardson
Blackmagikwolf Richardson
4 years ago

WHATTT A DUMBAZZ!! B U R N I E :: Damn you make it hard to know where to START EVEN, BUT I think maybe what I LEARNED IN THE 5th GRADE!!? PAYY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION DUMBAZZ:
T H E R E ISS NOOOO, I REPEAT NOOO SUCH THING AS A

**DEMOCRAT!?**: LMAO1
st OFF THERE ARE NO MORE TRUE DEMOCRATS ANYMORE!
ONLY DUMBAZZ ANTI-AMERICAN, PISSLAMIC TERRORIST LOVING AZZHOLES!!

**SOCIALIST** = A FULL 180 DEGREE OPPOSITE OF DEMOCRACY! 17.7 DEGREE TURN FROM ALL OUT **COMMUNISM**!
A VERY SLIGHT DEVIATION TWEEN THE 2!!
IN THE END: BOTH ARE THE SAME: COMMUNISM!
THERE CAN NEVER BE NO SUCH THING AS A “”DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST!””: U NUTCASE!!
DEMON SOCIALIST IN AMERICA OBVIOUSLY: YOU ARE A PERFECT EXAMPLE!

TAKE YOUR SOCIALISM, BURNTOUT SLANDERS
>>>> STICK UP YOUR BUTT 6 MILES & BREAK IT OFF IN THERE!!!!! <<<< DIE A VERYYY PAINFUL, HORRIFIC DEATH WITH LOTS OF SUFFERING FROM IT! IS YOU STUPID AZZ FOLLOWING ME SO FAR FOOL?? ---------DEMONCRAPS NEED TO BE SHOT INSTEAD OF BEING PAID A PENNY!!--------- >>>YOU ARE ONLY NEW AGE SOCIALIST: REWORDING THE SAME BS TRYING TO SELL OFF A 200-2000 YEAR OLD, OR OLDER; TOTALITARIAN, DICTATORSHIP OF TOTAL:
HITLER TYPE BS!
SP SIT YO AZZ DOWN AND STFYU! NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOU MOUTH OFF FOOL!
STOP BLOWING YOUR BS SMOKE SIGNALS TRYING TO REWORD THE BS TO SELL IT AS NEW!! IT CAN NEVER BE NOTHING, —— BUTTTT PURE BS!!!

WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS:
LINE ALL DEMON CONGRESS PEOPLE UP, HOLDING HANDS WITH YOUR BFF’s: DIAPERHEADED, PISSLAMIC MOOSELUMP, TERRORIST, ALLAHBUWALLAH HOMO PIG LOVER: ON EACH SIDE!!
THEN SOMEONE NEEDS TO YELL:: F I R E E E E E E!!!!
ALL YOU SLIME, COULD CONSIDER IT : THE “”DEMONTERRORIST LUXURY TAX””!!!
A TAX FOR BEING ALLOWED TO LIVE HERE SPEWING YOUR TREASONOUS POISON SOCIALISM, LYING TO AMERICA SIMPLY TO STUFF YOUR POCKETS WITH TAXPAYER MONEY TO BE R I C H!

MONEY WON’T BUY YOUR SOUL FREEDOM FROM DEATH OR REAPING WHAT YOU HAVE SOWED:
GRIM WILL LOOK AT YOU AND LAUGH HIS ASS OFF:
“WTH DO YOU THINK I NEED YOUR GREEN TOILET PAPER FOR!! IDIOT!
**THERE IS NO 7/11. WALMART, DOPE DEALER, LIQUOR STORE OR GREEDY PEOPLE IN THE NEXT REALM YOU FOOL!**
THEN HE BEHEADS YOU & EVER PERSON ALIVE!
BANK ON THAT FOOLS!!!!!
JUST LIKE THE DISEASED PISSLAMICS ARE SPEWING THEIR
>>WHORE’RAN & SHITRIA LAW BS! << YOU FILTHY DISEASED ANTI-AMERICAN BRAIN DEAD IDIOT! >>SHAKING MY HEAD AT THE DEPTH OF STUPIDITY YOU WENT TO!<< WHAT A FOOL MAKING SUCH AN OXYMORON STATEMENT!! BUT IT DOES MATCH YOUR MORONIC LACK OF A BRAIN, YOU DUMBAAZZ JEW!!!!!

durabo
durabo
4 years ago

America’s LameStream EneMedia (especially television) have been Bolshoid since the days of Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

The most important aspect of this election is that the nominee will be determined by the most radical, extremist of the Commiecrats. Whoever gains the nomination will have to concede so much ground that he/she will not be able to move towards the center, and Trump will have open season on his opponent. It is going to be a very exciting and important election and one that may well see the complete exposure of the Commiecrats regardless of the MSM’s attempt to conceal their radicalism.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Democrat “voter fraud” Aie there’s the rub!!

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

I haven’t trusted MSM for more than the weather in years.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

I think Tulsi Gabbard is actually a fairly okay candidate, to be honest. At least compared with some of the other Democratic politicians.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
4 years ago

A one-word description of all of em—TRAITOR!!!

jerrys
jerrys
4 years ago

One thing they left out of that list;
ENSLAVE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER!!!!

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