As Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders surges in the polls and threatens to overtake Hillary Clinton, a media watchdog group has noticed that the broadcast network newscasts have curiously avoided labeling the candidate properly.

In a 14-month study released last month by the Media Research Center (MRC), ABC, NBC, and CBS ignored Sanders' socialist ideas or failed to even refer to him as a socialist in 82 percent of stories on the candidate on the morning and evening news shows dating back to April of last year.

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Alatheia Larsen with MRC tells OneNewsNow it is not as if Sanders is hiding his socialist stance, as he is for enormously high tax rates on the wealthy, for wealth redistribution, for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, for universal healthcare, and for tuition-free college.



"Those are all core chants of socialist ideology," she notes. "Those are the things you chant for in socialism, and yet the networks won't identify him as that, and they won't call him a socialist when he calls himself a socialist."



Larsen concludes that the broadcast network journalists do not want to tell people that the 74-year-old Vermont senator is a socialist "because it doesn't fit with their agenda."