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The fact is that no matter how committed we are to Third Party politics, we have a duty at this time to support Sanders. It is hard to say this after more than forty years in the Peace and Freedom Party. But it is a fact. We may know that this campaign could lead its newly activated followers into the support of Clinton of Biden as the Democratic Party nominee. But disgust at the machine assured nomination of one of them in lieu of Sanders can equally well lead to revulsion and recognition that the Democratic is, as it always has been, a roadblock, not a path to independent political action. -----Original Message----- From: Joaquín Bustelo via Marxism <[email protected]> To: Wayne M. Collins <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 5:16 pm Subject: [Marxism] Why is the Spanish-language media boycotting Bernie Sanders? ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. ***************************************************************** From my blog, Hatuey's Ashes Major Spanish language media in the United States are extensively covering Hillary Clinton and other mainstream political figures but almost completely ignoring news about Bernie Sanders. An underfinanced, crotchety old Senator from a tiny, virtually all-white state, with no national organization or a single significant endorsement, who (in the United States!) proclaims himself a socialist, no less, mounts his horse, picks up his lance, and rides off to tilt at windmills, thinking they are giants. And the giants start to fall. Ignored by the mainstream media and even the "progressive" outlets, his message spreads nonetheless. People come out by the thousands to hear and cheer him. The campaign raises millions from donations that average less than $50. Yet a study of the web sites of the five most important Spanish-language news outlets in the United States --two TV networks and three daily newspapers-- reveals a lopsidedness that is impossible to justify except as an expression of systematic and generalized bias on the part of journalists and editors. http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/09/don-quijote-sanders-and-spanish-media.html _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shacht%40aol.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
