Post by robing on Mar 18, 2016 1:36:02 GMT
NYT is perfidious media. Paul Krugman set himself up immediately as the gatekeeper of reasonable economics and painted Sanders as hopelessly clueless. I'm not aware of them NOT blacking out his massive rallies and of course, the marches. NYT wasn't the worst but it could have been a lot better. Finally NYT really went too far. That was when, on March 14, NYT online published an online account of all the work Bernie did in Congress behind the scenes and how he got so much done. Then the next day, SuTues2, the glowing title had been changed to something tepid and rather demeaning (will link later),and the text edited to make it sound like he didn't do much. That was emblazoned on middle of the front page of the hard copy NYT.
I think there's a very strong case that if we had had a positive front page article of him as the doer he's been all these years, that would have certainly won those 1532 votes we needed to take Missouri, and quite possibly Illinois too. The following day the headline on hard copy NYT front page (mid page): Sander's bid for comeback after surge rejected by voters. (I paraphrase but VERY closely).
The major shareholder in NYT is Carlos Slim. He's one of the richest people in the world and most of his assets are in Mexico, some in Europe. Newspapers aren't even profitable anymore and it's very obvious that Carlos Slim controls the Times so he can control the discourse to maintain the neoLiberal status quo that is poisoning us all. I assume he wasn't amused by the favorable article online the night before SupTues2.
I've identified one possible vulnerable asset of Carlos Slim's--a clothing line for young women targeted to young women that he apparently markets internationally to places like H&M It's new. I want to look into it and if we can keep this movement galvanized, and if it IS in fact in the US, I'd like to make a boycott of that clothing line. We also have a lot of supporters in Europe (and probably in Latin America too, and elsewhere, and they would probably hop on board. Of course we can also boycott the NYT but how many of us actually subscribe to it? And the other thing is we need to keep our pulse on what it's saying so....
Be that as it may, if we do decide to make a boycott of NYT or something of Slim's, that will go under the Boycotts section.
I think there's a very strong case that if we had had a positive front page article of him as the doer he's been all these years, that would have certainly won those 1532 votes we needed to take Missouri, and quite possibly Illinois too. The following day the headline on hard copy NYT front page (mid page): Sander's bid for comeback after surge rejected by voters. (I paraphrase but VERY closely).
The major shareholder in NYT is Carlos Slim. He's one of the richest people in the world and most of his assets are in Mexico, some in Europe. Newspapers aren't even profitable anymore and it's very obvious that Carlos Slim controls the Times so he can control the discourse to maintain the neoLiberal status quo that is poisoning us all. I assume he wasn't amused by the favorable article online the night before SupTues2.
I've identified one possible vulnerable asset of Carlos Slim's--a clothing line for young women targeted to young women that he apparently markets internationally to places like H&M It's new. I want to look into it and if we can keep this movement galvanized, and if it IS in fact in the US, I'd like to make a boycott of that clothing line. We also have a lot of supporters in Europe (and probably in Latin America too, and elsewhere, and they would probably hop on board. Of course we can also boycott the NYT but how many of us actually subscribe to it? And the other thing is we need to keep our pulse on what it's saying so....
Be that as it may, if we do decide to make a boycott of NYT or something of Slim's, that will go under the Boycotts section.