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Upwards of one thousand people gathered outside CNN station headquarters in Hollywood, California to protest the network’s black-out of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign.

“Hundreds, possibly more than a thousand people standing at #OccupyCNN. You'd think they'd be willing to spare one news van to cover us,” wrote Jonathan Daniel Brown on Twitter, screenwriter, actor and star of the film Kid Cannabis.

Under the hashtag #OccupyCNN, protesters chided CNN and the corporate media in general that give candidates like Donald Trump thirty times more air time than Bernie Sanders. This is particularly egregious as the GOP frontrunner continues a vitriolic campaign that has outcast nearly every group in the United States but white Christian males.



Despite mounting recent wins against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Hawaii, Washington, Alaska and Nevada, CNN has continued its aggressive “Bernie blackout,” running travel shows and Trump footage instead.

US Uncut correspondent and independent journalist James Woods aka JamesFromTheInternet contrasted CNN’s Donald Trump segments with the thousand-strong protest happening directly outside.

“I love that @CNN is so busy talking about @realDonaldTrump that they can't report about the thousand people outside their door #OccupyCNN,” the journalist wrote on Twitter.

Green Party candidate for president Dr. Jill Stein also took to Twitter, highlighting the complete media blackout of third-party candidates in U.S. elections.

The leftist candidate shared a video of herself and Green Party vice presidential nominee Cheri Honkala being arrested trying to enter the 2012 Hofstra University presidential debate.

While Sanders receives minimal corporate media coverage, Third Party candidates receive virtually none.

Sanders’ rival Hillary Clinton and associated Super PACs receive enormous campaign contributions from CNN’s parent company Time Warner, accounting for his lack of coverage. According to The Center for Responsive Politics, Time Warner contributed $191,874 to Clinton’s associated PACs in 2016 alone.

California’s Democratic primary on 7 June will be an extremely important contest in deciding the party’s nominee, as 548 delegates are up for grabs.

Clinton was designated the inevitable nominee by the mainstream media early in the campaign, despite Sanders’ continued winning of states and major grassroots effort. A Sanders rally in the Bronx just a few days prior to #OccupyCNN drew nearly 20,000 people, a number that Clinton hasn’t even neared at her rallies.

Thanks to the obvious bias of CNN and other corporate media, more and more Americans are turning to independent media.