Ask any Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee Trump campaign plays up Biden's skills ahead of Cleveland debate: 'He's actually quite good' Young voters backing Biden by 2:1 margin: poll MORE supporter who’s been following his campaign since the start and they’ll tell you about the corporate media blackout that has surrounded the Sanders camp since he announced his decision to run. A lot of them would probably tell you that this has been a deliberate decision made by the corporate media to purposely block the message Sanders has been electrifying record-setting crowds with this election cycle. If you haven’t been paying attention, or haven’t yet heard Bernie’s electrifying message you may think that sounds ridiculous.

If you don’t yet know much about Sanders, it’s probably easy for you to conclude that the corporate media likely hasn’t been seriously covering Sanders because you’ve heard, from the corporate media, he’s just a “fringe” or “protest” candidate. Or perhaps you’ve heard, again through the corporate media, about him being an “old socialist guy from Vermont, who needs to comb his hair, and likes to wave his arms a lot.”

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The fact of the matter is that there hasn’t been another candidate thus far in the 2016 presidential election cycle who has worked harder, discussed more issues affecting more everyday Americans, (while attempting to avoid partisan politics) traveled more, (via commercial air and rental vehicles) delivered more speeches, consistently gathered larger crowds, picketed at more protests, marched at more civil rights marches, and who has received less coverage from the corporate media.

The question you should be asking yourself is “why”? Why, if the task and purpose of the media and of journalists is to empower by informing the electorate, would they so poorly cover and so rarely even mention the name Bernie Sanders? If you have been paying attention you should be wondering why they’re not at least informing us about the same issues Bernie has been discussing in his speeches that have been resonating so well with the continually growing number of Sanders supporters.

Unfortunately for the corporate media -- all of which are owned by six corporations; GE, NEWSCORP, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS -- to report on the only candidate discussing these issues goes against their best interests, and by best interests, I mean their profits and who they want to elect and control, as admitted to by Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE, through campaign contributions to the tune of millions of dollars.

To provide coverage of the candidate discussing these issues, would also mean possibly adding to the popularity of a candidate explaining the need to raise taxes on the heads of these very corporations. To provide coverage of Bernie Sanders and the issues he’s discussing would mean discussing the fact that while the lower and middle class men and women of this country were away from their friends, families, and loved ones, fighting, killing, and dying in two wars simultaneously the heads of these corporations did not help fight, they received tax cuts, sometimes paid zero net taxes, and received millions in tax refunds. Some of us have been lucky enough to fight, win, and return home unscathed. Others have been not as lucky but have returned home without eyesight, missing some of our limbs, unable to have babies, unable to even feed or even take care of ourselves, made to feel shameful and disgruntled about what some call an unnecessary war in Iraq, only to receive inadequate care and benefits due to a lack of funding while corporations like these continue to reap benefits in the form of tax cuts, refunds, and subsidies.

The Bernie Brigade understands that the revolution will not be televised, it will be shared and retweeted. What the corporate media and his opponents should know is that the more they choose to ignore him after he attracts crowds of more than 70,000 in three days, or the more you attack him after he surpasses you in the polls, the more fuel you add to the train that is the Sanders campaign. The more you discuss the fact that Hillary is losing support and then segue to when Joe Biden Joe BidenJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Trump puts Supreme Court fight at center of Ohio rally Special counsel investigating DeVos for potential Hatch Act violation: report MORE may or may not enter the race, without even mentioning Bernie Sanders, the more fuel you add to the Bernie campaign train. The more you validate our assumptions and conclusions that the Bernie blackout has more to do with what’s in your best interests and less to do with actually informing and empowering the electorate.

The more times the corporate media broadcasts Trump’s speeches when he speaks for an hour without saying anything, rather than broadcasting the speech of the most liberal progressive candidate in the race, who’s now being considered the Democratic frontrunner, speaking at one of the most religious conservative universities in the country, the more you reinforce our assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs. When the DNC only schedules six debates and refuses to even consider adding more, when in 2008, the last time Hillary ran, there were more than 25, the more they help solidify the fact that this campaign cycle has more to do with what’s in their best interests, less to do with informing the electorate, and this adds more fuel to the Bernie campaign train, and drives home the belief that this political revolution will not be televised.

Borbon is an active-duty Army vet with two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.