RSN: Norman Solomon | Why Bernie Sanders Is Correct About the Washington Post - and Corporate Media Overall

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RSN: Norman Solomon | Why Bernie Sanders Is Correct About the Washington Post - and Corporate Media Overall 

Norman Solomon, Reader Supported News
Solomon writes: "Many decades ago, the great media critic George Seldes observed: 'The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself.' That remains true today." 

EXCERPT: 

Bernie Sanders set off the latest round of outraged denial from elite media this week when he talked to a crowd in New Hampshire about the tax avoidance of Amazon (which did not pay any federal income tax last year). Sanders went on to say: “I wonder why the Washington Post — which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon — doesn’t write particularly good articles about me. I don’t know why. But I guess maybe there’s a connection."

Sanders has fought explicitly and effectively to raise the wages of Amazon workers as well as millions of others. Yet the mass-media pretense is that the financial interests of the Post’s owner have no effect on the newspaper’s coverage of Sanders.

Corporate denial is the name of that media game. Usually, expressed denials aren’t necessary. But there’s nothing usual about Bernie Sanders, who’s been willing to call out the biases and blind spots of corporate media since he entered politics.

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