(04-20-2016, 09:11 PM)Kris Kringle Wrote:

(04-20-2016, 07:33 PM)Tsunamy Wrote: We just hear more about Sander because white guys control a lot of the levers of power and get to decide the media narrative.

If people in power truly were trying to dictate the media narrative in favour of Bernie, I don't think you would've had virtually everyone in the party and the media insisting day in and day out how he never stood a chance and was unelectable, no matter how many races we won.
I don't know if he'll get the nomination, but I don't think it's a fair assessment to say he's had the support of powerful white people, when basically the entire Democratic Party and the media have from day 1 treated him as a slight obstacle in the way of Hillary Clinton. She's always been the one with the advantage.

That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that his "momentum" is overstated because the people who support him often run in the same circles as the people who cover the race.

It's not a secret that we have a huge problem of representation in the media industries. People who make these decisions are overwhelming white, straight men from middle-to-upper class backgrounds who live in urban areas (and by and large New York). That's not in question. If people who made these decisions were black, queer women who lived in rural Mississippi, there would be a different situation.