Beat me to it. Bernie little tantrum has backfired on him.
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Well, he’s certainly not wrong.
“Do I think Jeff Bezos is on the phone, telling the editor of The Washington Post what to do? Absolutely not,” Sanders told CNN reporter Annie Grayer. “It doesn’t work that way.” The Vermont senator said there was a “framework” under which mainstream news outlets like Washington Post and CNN operate that keeps reporters from asking hard questions about wealth inequality.
This is a bog-standard critique of US mass media. It should not even raise an eyebrow.
“But by not asking that question, does that make the media unfair?” Grayer asked.
Ridiculous, unless Grayer understood not one iota of what Sanders had just said.
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Why I’m a prime member. One of you gracious people made it possible, and I thank you for it.
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In your learned opinion, of course.
Others see things differently.
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Others had enough of him in 2016.
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Well, bless your heart! So kind of you!
Chelsea’s offer is an example as to why I wouldn’t do that. I think that the very notion of paying to - What? Receive inside observations from Josh? Talk to fellow members? - makes a sort of internet gated community vibe that I find unpleasant. I don’t fault Josh, because I know it’s a hard row to hoe, making a business on the internet. But it makes for a more conservative discussion, if I can compare the threads to pre-Prime days at TPM
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I saw nothing but bile. You’re wise to ignore it.
And I should take your “others” more seriously than my “others” because … ?
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The foot soldiers of the Fifth Estate are automatically outraged when something they all admit to in private is made public.
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But rest assured he’ll treat you great if you have a journo degree!
Right, Jeff?
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Wait, don’t go!
You forgot to specify what exactly you were objecting to!
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Be grateful for small mercies.
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And you nor anyone you know has ever bought anything on Amazon. Hope getting this nonsense off your chest and sending it into cyberspace helps your search for perfection.
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I’m willing to let Biden be Biden with all of his gaffes because at bottom we know he’s got a pretty good heart, and as time goes on his support may grow despite them. But there’s a difference in Bernie shouting about Bezos and Amazon that’s so off putting and frankly delusional.
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WTF LBG? I expected better of you. Of course, like every other person with a credit card, I has bought things off Amazon. But I have learned over time how bad they are to their workers, and to our local/state govs, and I have made a concerted effort to buy local including/especially bookstores. Why would you slag me for that?!
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Frankly this thread has become derailed and devolved into hating Amazon and everything about it esp. hating Bezos who owns one of the best and most progressive papers around. As far as I can tell he’s hands off too. I too patronize book stores when I can but there are too many big ticket items I’m interested in that I can’t afford at brick and mortar. But really, who knew you expected anything from me.
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I stopped a long time ago.
For example, you may have noticed that whenever I recommend a book here, I link to an independent book-store (for example, Powell’s in Seattle) and never to Amazon.
Er … what?
“Hating” is your word – but the thread has been neither “derailed” nor “devolved.”
The discussion here is part and parcel of the critique Sanders is leveling at Amazon/Bezos. Obviously you don’t have to agree with Sanders but, given the TPM articles we’re discussing, you can’t credibly say that criticizing Amazon/Bezos is irrelevant.
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GMonmouth which has an A+ rating from 538 had Bernie at 16 % in April and now has him at 9% in August. Likely voters both times.
It is likely that Bernie will outperform his numbers because young voters have not tended to come out in the past.
ETA months.
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What would be common sense coming from anyone else is elevated to
an outrage when Bernie says it, for many.
An immensely wealthy person owns a newspaper or media and they have
influence over what it says? How dare you sir, impugn the noble and
selfless billionaire Bezos, who is only second to the angels in purity.
To say nothing of those paragons of virtue Murdoch and Randolph Hearst.
I am sure that they had the purest of motives.
And there was an actual memo to tell Phil Donahue to lay off the antiwar stuff,
before he got fired.
How does it work in practice. No Bezos does not have to call anyone. The Washington
Post simply wouldn’t hire anyone who said they would like to investigate the
impact of wealth on policy.
Please spare me your faux outrage.
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