Remember that time in 2016 when the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours?

Washington Post coverage of Bernie Sanders over the past 24 hours alone: see if you can spot an agenda. pic.twitter.com/4Dsnn4ZPEV — Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 8, 2016

So what did the WashPost do when they were called out for their bias? They defended it.

To give you an idea of how heavy the negative bias was at the WashPost and how much of an effect it had, look at this NYPost article.



The Bernie Sanders candidacy didn’t die a natural death — it was murdered. And the murder weapon has the fingerprints of the Washington Post all over it. That’s the contention of the much-respected progressive writer Thomas Frank (author of the beloved-by-the-left book “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”) in an evisceration of the media’s role in taking down Sanders that will be the cover story of the November issue of Harper’s. Frank went through every one of hundreds of opinion pieces published in the Washington Post on Sanders and Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination for president, during primary season, from January to May 2016, and found a stark disparity in coverage. Sanders pieces took a negative tone by a ratio of 5 to 1, whereas opinion pieces on Clinton were about evenly split between favorable and unfavorable.

...Frank cites headlines that ran over opinion pieces that said things like, “NOMINATING SANDERS WOULD BE INSANE” (days before the Iowa caucuses) and “A CAMPAIGN FULL OF FICTION” (the same week). Columnist Charles Lane ridiculed Sanders for suggesting that he was fighting against “the billionaire class” that largely seems comfortable with a Hillary Clinton presidency while other writers castigated Sanders for lacking a serious plan to tackle the deficit (as though Hillary Clinton has one either).

With that in mind, how do you think the Washington Post has covered the new Sanders campaign in the 24 hours since his announcement yesterday?









At this point can the Washington Post even be considered journalism? Or is it more like the print edition of DKos?