{"id":20601,"date":"2015-04-30T22:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T02:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20601"},"modified":"2015-04-30T23:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T03:13:43","slug":"bernie-sanders-press-conference-announcing-his-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/30\/bernie-sanders-press-conference-announcing-his-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders&#8217; Press Conference Announcing His Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?325700-1\/senator-bernie-sanders-ivt-news-conference Senator Bernie Sanders News Conference\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"C-SPNA broadcast of announcement\">C-Span broadcast the press conference<\/a> that Bernie Sanders held.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" width='512' height='390' scrollable='no' src='http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?325700-1\/senator-bernie-sanders-ivt-news-conference'><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre style=\"border:none; background:none;\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>To appreciate this candidacy, you have to hear Bernie Sanders in his own words.<\/p>\n<p>If Bernie Sanders&#8217; message is going to reach the audience that needs to hear it, then we in the grassroots are going to have to take responsibility for making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>It is becoming clear that the media wants to pretend this never happened.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google News\">Google News page<\/a> hardly even mentions this event at the time I am writing this blog post.  Their top article was something about football.  The only mention of the Sanders&#8217; candidacy was a reference to an entirely bogus opinion piece in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/04\/30\/today-in-politics-sanders-offers-clinton-both-a-potential-foil-and-a-pitfall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today in Politics: Sanders Offers Clinton Both a Potential Foil and a Pitfall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of press coverage by <em>Google<\/em> and <em>The New York Times<\/em> is the kind of coverage that Bernie Sanders specifically asked the media to rise above. In the video of the conference you can hear him tell a news person that his question is the wrong kind of question, and then he told him what the right question would be.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Bernie Sanders the Koch brothers worst nightmare (see the <em>Politicus USA<\/em> story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/04\/30\/day-presidential-campaign-bernie-sanders-koch-brothers-worst-nightmare.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Po;iticus USA article\">On Day One Of His Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders Is The Kochs Worst Nightmare<\/a>), but the press is going to find that he is their nightmare too.  When the public finally sees a clear demonstration of how little the media want to give them the information they need, they will rise up in rebellion against that media.  The internet is not the newspapers&#8217; biggest threat.  Their biggest threat is the lack of quality of the product they want us to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-Span broadcast the press conference that Bernie Sanders held. To appreciate this candidacy, you have to hear Bernie Sanders in his own words. If Bernie Sanders&#8217; message is going to reach the audience that needs to hear it, then we in the grassroots are going to have to take responsibility for making it happen. 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