Just. Like words affecting the campaign. For. Spring history story all right. Ok. All right. Hello im Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post among the stories were covering this week its an Election Year in america and the battle for the democratic nomination has Bernie Sanders and the Corporate News media at odds with freedom of speech has returned to angola and the satirists have the knives out for the political establishment a tit for tat diplomatic spat between beijing and washington has american and chinese news outlets caught in the middle plus a strange idea the wildfires the Climate Crisis to revisit to the same industry and speaking strewth to power were in the early days of u. S. Election season and the battle for the right to take on donald trump has the makings of a 2 horse race on the Progressive Side of the Democratic Party vermont senator Bernie Sanders currently polling at around 30 percent to his right former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg a late entry at roughly 20 percent in the coverage of the 2 candidates whose politics are poles apart the us media are showing their true corporate colors sanders is a democratic socialist bloomberg the 9th richest person in the world sanders relies on a huge grassroots following record breaking fundraising from individuals bloomberg has already spent more than 350000000. 00. Of his own money on an advertising blitz over the 1st 2 primaries sanders in both number of votes and delegates one has been at or near the top of the pack yet in much of the News Coverage he is being cast as simply unelectable theres a long way to go before november but for a lot of American Voters the us media are already an election issue our starting point this week is the site of the 3rd democratic primary the state of nevada. The politics of primary season move fast front runners can morph into also rans at the drop of a hat or in the case of Elizabeth Warren going after Michael Bloomberg at the drop of a minute id like to talk about who are running against a billionaire who calls women fat broads and of course faced lesbians and no im not talking about donald trump im talking about mayor bloomberg as of this writing the 2 Democratic Front runners are senator Bernie Sanders a democratic socialist and a billionaire media mogul turned politician Michael Bloomberg which talks which talks a bit new york your new york city for this weeks debate in las vegas was the 1st in which bloomberg has actually taken part up until then he let his money do the talking spending more than a 3rd of a 1000000000. 00 on advertising bloomberg is the only democrat who can take on trump and his face is what you see every time you turn on the television if youre listening to the radio if youre on the internet Bloomberg Bloomberg bloomberg all the time i like i like i like i like my in the limited way weve already seen its efficacy early signs are that he is absolutely annihilated the centrist moderate lane and his really is only opponent at this point is Bernie Sanders some people might say dont hate the player hate the game but at the same time our lives are not a game i mean this is this is reality around the race and when who is virtually unchecked to bypass process. But i like Michael Bloomberg has been able to run and posts in the gauge in influencers to make him still like you know the cool dad or granddad without actually having to be vetted on his actual record on his issues hes able to misinterpret in distort and that is a problem and so its a perfect example of how the u. S. Democracy is so fragile in the sense that it doesnt represent the interests of the people but in fact represents the interests of those people who have money and the people who receive the bulk of bloomberg ad spend is on television filling the coffers of some of the Networks Covering him the Corporate Media also seem to have a conflict of interest when covering Bernie Sanders who wants to rein in Corporate Power and raise taxes on the rich the network taking the most heat for it sanders coverage is m s n b c m s n b c s politics are center left but with a capitalist see it openly opposes donald trump but constantly tells its viewers that the socialist sanders who keeps leading the polls is an electable black leader said we would rather vote for the king of stop and frisk and gentrification than for the socialist revolution m s n b cs stop Sanders Campaign has irked many democratic voters previously undecided ones one of whom said as much on m s n b cs air the reason i went for bernie. Because of m. S. M. P. C. Dot bernie says the cynicism that i heard from a number of people it made me angry enough i said ok bernies got my vote there is an ideological divide at play in m. S. N. B. C. s coverage and a generational one i am my own viewership is less than ill be glad to share them with you in private and even though polls show that 40 percent of americans most of them young have a positive view of socialism the pundit class at m s n b c and anchors like Chris Matthews spit out the s word like its radioactive. I believe in the. And the read said one the cold war there were the executions in central park and i might have been one of the ones getting executed and his vision of Bernie Sanders as this stone esque figure whos going to bring back the gulags and executions in central park is completely off base. Message democratic socialism is something that is more like what we see in a lot of European Countries working out of a Great Program and the great irony is weve seen it in the United States of america it is very similar to the new deal policies of Franklin Delano roosevelt so when they say that Bernie Sanders is some crazy radical no what hes doing now is a more inclusive reboot of really the greatest Economic Movement in American History at the end of the day you do have a deep generational divide and you will hear folks. Certainly on the right who will say oh you know socialism is the same as communism but its particularly troubling to people when you hear savvy engaged commentators who really should be on top of it kind of falling into some of those traps theyre not interested in socialism and it revolution and foolishness here and i think that that theres a lot of pushback on that younger folks and even some older folks who like a holding thats not a realistic discourse. Bernie sanders is accustomed to hostile coverage from the Corporate Media during the 2016 campaign the Washington Post which insists it has editorial independence under its billionaire owner amazon dot com as jeff bezos managed to produce 16 negative stories on the senator in just 16 hours somebody was working overtime in 2020 Corporate News outlets are messing with or deliberately misinterpreting the numbers. The most in iowa New Hampshire but if you look at the numbers. As a candidate and a ceiling given his performance in the 1st 2 primaries any objective analysis would have sanders as one of the front runners for the democratic nomination at the very least many in the us media have taken a more subjective approach dividing the candidates into 2 categories progressives led by sanders and moderates which effectively means the rest of the field and pitting them against each other the New York Times did that on its podcast the dany. Around a quarter of 25 percent. But another way of thinking is that if you add. More moderate candidates vote tonight they collectively got Something Like 70 percent of the impression created that when theres just one moderate left in the race sanders will ultimately lose to that candidate add up the moderate votes for pete and amy and they overwhelm the bernie vote but the assumption that scenario was based upon that moderate voters would never switch to a progressive like sanders has been shown in poll after poll to be false of course if you add up totals from 3 different candidates against one person youre going to have more thats not how does it polling even works in so were seeing these real contrived moments in media right now which unfortunately in 2016 lead to the promotion are usually one of the worst president s in our history and were seeing unfortunately a similar trend that will probably lead to a similar result there is a tendency even sanders leads in many polls as had a considerable amount of success as a candidate to say well he cant possibly. That that somehow he only has a narrow range of support thats not reflected in a poll at the polling shows that Bernie Sanders could win the democratic nomination and say well but it says he could one excellent example was. What happened in New Hampshire he has more vote he gets more delegates and instead of considering him the winner the coverage in fact says well sanderson do quite as well as he did 2016 because then he had a much bigger lead over clinton the numbers are there but the spin on the numbers is always seeming to make sander seem fragile vulnerable and as the news media likes to put it on electable. Michael bloomberg on the other hand has the means to craft his own narrative through advertising at 360000000. 00 and counting the billionaires are spending a lot of money on ads and as Elizabeth Warren told m s n b cs socialist fearing Chris Matthews after this weeks debate in nevada theres plenty more money where that came from he is about to drop tonight another 100000000. 00 you know why we have almost lead to more spending come on in order to try to raise americas memory of what happened on that debate stage come november the American Media will undoubtedly characterize the election as a referendum on the Trump Presidency there may be even more on the line however than just the white house if Bernie Sanders can get past the Democratic Partys old guard overcome all those studio pundits and ultimately prevail over the corporate journalistic forces aligned against him American Media and politics may never be the same the democratic primary is a major referendum on how much power and influence the American Media has because they are almost overwhelmingly and completely aligned against Bernie Sanders. So the question is can the marshall powers of American Media stop Bernie Sanders and if the answer is no i think what were about to see is an abrupt and prophetic and to the decades of monopoly that Corporate Media has had on the philosophical. Parts of american politics. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our reproducers johannah who says joe tensions have been brewing between china and the u. S. Over a number of issues including trade alleged intelligence operations american support for taiwan a place youve reported from recently and now the media have been added to this list of bilateral issues in what way well this past tuesday the state department announced that its now going to treat 5 Major ChineseMedia Companies as extensions of the beijing government were talking about China Global Television network as well as this Union News AgencyChina Radio International china daily and peoples daily which have been designated as socalled Foreign Missions which basically means that the u. S. Government no longer considers them journalistic entities but companies that will have to comply with the same rules that govern embassies and consulates so what kind of rules are we talking about well these media organizations will have to disclose the names of all the person now who they hire who they fire and then the u. S. Government to sign off before they can these are by office space now the state Department Said that these news outlets are part and parcel of chinas Propaganda Machine and that the fact that their own to controlled by the Chinese Government means that they basically meet the definition of a Foreign Mission so roughly 24 hours later beijing expels 3 reporters working there for the wall street journal coincidence well the timing certainly a suspicious beijing says that their credentials were revoked over an essay the paper published on its opinion pages earlier this month on the coronavirus titled china is the real sick man of asia im at a Chinese State officials said that Chinese People do not welcome the media that publish racist statements and smart china with malicious attacks and asked for the journalist expelled to americans in an australian their names werent even on the piece it was written by an academic based in washington ok thanks joe. To angola now which made headlines last month after the lawanda leak story leaked documents that exposed how is a build a santos the daughter of the former president used her family connections and her privilege to build a multibillion dollar empire her father rose a eduardo to santos was africas 2nd longest serving president he ruled the country for 38 years before retiring in 2017 president dos santos repressed his political opponents and the angola news media leaving very little room for dissent however his successor and so has promised a new era of Media Freedom and has actually treated some journalists jailed under dos santos as heroes in this new climate one particular form of dissent has flourished satire ever since the colonial era angolans have used political humor to make some serious points about the powers that be we spoke to 2 of the countrys most accomplished satirists one a comedian the other a cartoonist about their craft and the medium through which they see politics in angola. 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And finally millions of acres of scorched earth later most of those australian wildfires are now out or under control this wildfire season which Scientists Say has been made much worse by Climate Change has led to calls for a total overhaul of australias policy on the client but the government with its close ties to the coal industry there isnt about to do that the juice media is a production house based in sydney its been serving up what it calls its honest government ad series this next video explains that all those in power really want astray and citizens to do about the change in climate is to just get bleeping used to it they are astray after all well see you next hour here at the listening post. 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Hello from doha everyone im come all santa maria this is the news hour from aljazeera irans neighbors close their borders as fears grow over its coronavirus outbreak while there i was turned out in 30 years puts conservatives in control of irans parliament. Also in the news Bernie Sanders wins big in nevada based on his position as the Democratic Front runner in the race for the white house and how a 13 year blockade of gaza is forcing people to come up with some innovative ways