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Trump, Bernie Sanders, Fake News, and the Press

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So reality is even worse than portrayed in Our Revolution (though that reality logically follows from the book's conclusions) and Trump is not completely wrong when he attacks the corporate press. His error is thinking they only lie about him and his views and that one of the Sinful 6 is in fact not sinful at all -- News Corp when in fact it is the most sinful of all. He also blames smaller independent news organizations and local media outlets with the same brush as he does the corporate media he dislikes. In other words, his criticism is self-serving and phony.

So, who are more or less independent? Here are some that Bernie mentions (there are many others, including People's World, Countercurrents, The Intercept, OpEd News, The London Progressive Journal, Mother Jones, The Independent in NYC) Media Matters for America (Blog), The Nation, The Young Turks, Democracy Now, In These Times, The Progressive.

You take pot luck with the mass media. If you don't believe me, read Bernie Sanders' book.

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Thomas Riggins, PhD CUNY, is a retired university lecturer in philosophy and ancient history and the former book review editor for Political Affairs magazine.

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