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Re:How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders by roderickm on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:26AM (#11297535)
Bias need not be coordinated or conspiratorial to exist in media. Trump and Clinton each have more than twice the earned (free) media coverage than their nearest competitors. The amount each campaign spends on bought media is a small fraction of what is bestowed by news editors and producers.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/15/ny-times-trumps-mamm...

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Re:How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders by rayiner on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:42AM (#11298170)
The whole "earned media coverage" thing is so mind boggling I don't even know what to say. The media covers candidates people are interested in, and somehow that's equivalent to paid advertising? Maybe, just maybe, peoples' opinions drive what the media covers (like every other market in existence), instead of the other way around?

Beyond that, the media coverage of Clinton and Trump are overwhelmingly negative. All I see on TV is "how to stop Trump" and "is Hillary a lying liar who lies?"

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