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Sanders has complained about a lack of media attention, and the blackout of his remarks certainly didn't go unnoticed.

Some things to keep in mind amid the outrage:

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The cable networks surely could have aired some of Sanders’s speech, but it largely overlapped with Donald Trump’s. Sanders will lose that head-to-head media matchup every time. Everyone does. Just last week, Hillary Clinton’s speech following primaries in Michigan and Mississippi got pushed to tape delay on all three channels because Trump was still speaking.

(If you’re upset because cable news picked Trump over Sanders, that’s fine. Just know that Sanders wasn’t singled out.)

Also, the Sanders-John Kasich comparison isn’t as favorable as the democratic socialist’s fans like to think. Yes, Sanders has performed better in his race than Kasich has in his, but with the way the nominating process works, the Ohio governor may have a better shot at becoming his party’s standard-bearer. It’s a long shot, for sure, but it is possible that Republicans could be destined for a contested convention, giving Kasich at least a chance. Sanders’s path is almost impossible to find; it’s just math.

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If you're wondering why Kasich’s speech was covered and Sanders’s wasn’t, a big reason is that Kasich is considered a dark horse and Sanders is considered a dead horse.

Here's one more reason: Sanders didn’t make news in his remarks.

It’s not like the cable channels didn’t have feeds of Sanders's speech available to them. You can just imagine the conversations in their control rooms:

PRODUCER: Hey, should we break in to show Bernie’s speech? He saying anything newsworthy?

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ASSIGNED TO SANDERS FEED: Nope. Same old, same old.

PRODUCER: Okay, forget it.

No one’s saying Sanders should resort to Trump-like antics to get attention, but if you’re teetering on the brink of mathematical irrelevance, you can’t also be boring.