Bernie Sanders Goes Off on Mainstream Media: ‘The Emperor, in Fact, Has No Clothes’
http://observer.com/2017/08/bernie-sanders-criticizes-mainstream-media/
At the Riverside Church in New York City on August 28, Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that mainstream media doesn’t discuss relevant issues or provide thoughtful analyses that move the country in a positive direction.
“Now in my view the hardest part of politics and something Dr. King certainly knew has to do with courage, has to do with imagination, has to do with the need to think big and not small. It has to do with the need to escape the limitations and constraints of the status quo, which means you can turn the TV and watch it hour after hour, channel after channel after channel, and not see one relevant piece of information, and you have to understand that. It has to do to with rejecting as normal what we see everyday around us,” said Sanders. “It has to do with the need to maintain a deep sense of outrage at what we see around us in this country and around the world.” It has to do with the need to understand that the emperor in fact has no clothes and the need to have the courage, and it takes courage to ask the questions and provide the analyses not often done by mainstream media and politicians.”...
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