{"id":13473,"date":"2019-12-04T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:42:28","slug":"hes-just-erased-pbs-2020-segment-finds-time-for-klobuchar-sestak-and-bullock-but-completely-ignores-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/12\/04\/hes-just-erased-pbs-2020-segment-finds-time-for-klobuchar-sestak-and-bullock-but-completely-ignores-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He’s Just…Erased’: PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock\u2014But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 03, 2019 by Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was like watching “manufacturing consent in action,’ said Current Affairs<\/em> editor Nathan Robinson.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during the PBS NewsHour Democratic presidential candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on February 11, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo: Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014but did not once even mention Sen. Bernie Sanders despite recent key endorsements<\/a> and a surge in the polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders’ presidential campaign has repeatedly accused<\/a> the corporate media of ignoring the senator from Vermont, a phenomenon Sanders supporters have dubbed<\/a> the “Bernie blackout.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PBS segment, led by NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, offered “a real taste of what Bernie is talking about,” Current Affairs<\/em> editor Nathan Robinson wrote<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Remember that Sanders has been #1 in two out of three recent New Hampshire polls<\/a>, and is currently second in Iowa<\/a>, 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?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n