Washington (CNN) Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders took a good amount of flack -- and rightly so -- for suggesting that because he had been openly critical of Amazon not paying taxes, he was getting less-than-favorable coverage from The Washington Post.

(Note to recent arrivals on planet Earth: Jeff Bezos owns both Amazon and The Washington Post.)

"So this is not into conspiracy theory. We are taking on corporate America. Large corporations own the media in America, by and large, and I think there is a framework, about how the corporate media focuses on politics. That is my concern. It's not that Jeff Bezos is on the phone every day; he's not."

This was painted in some circles as a walk-back of his previous comments by Sanders. It was not. And just in case you had any doubt that Sanders, basically, meant what he had said about the media, he sent an email solicitation to his donors on Wednesday that drove that point home. Here's a sample:

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