Holy media dysfunction, Batman! What just happened?

The media are now reporting that the democratic primary is over, Hillary has clinched the nomination, she’s beat Bernie, and stands as victor. These decrees are being based on the Associated Press’s disclosure of a secret insider survey of superdelegates saying they’re voting HRC. I’m sorry, nobody has voted yet and won’t until July 25th? What is going on with our Twilight Zone media again?

"The media is corrupt" - crowd chant at @berniesanders rally. Followed by: "CNN is not your friend" — Dan Berman (@DHBerman) June 8, 2016

Bern baby Bern

On Tuesday’s Primary Night, at an election Rally in Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, the entire crowd responded to this by chanting: “The media is corrupt! The media is corrupt!” And When the big screen showed a CNN report, the crowd then chanted: “CNN sucks! CNN sucks!” and "CNN is not your friend! CNN is not your friend!"

Bernie spoke at the rally, and actually had to verbalize that he’s of course staying in the race anyway.

This begs the question, what is going on with our media? He’s Bernie-freaking-Sanders. The guy’s got an even bigger cult following than Barack ever had back in Obamamania. In fact, he’s crushing Obama’s old youth vote record right now by 11% (Sanders 71% to Obama’s 60%).

Glen Greenwald at The Intercept couldn’t have said it better:

“This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter.

Michael Krieger at ZeroHedge described the move by the AP as:

“...the most egregious example of mainstream media malpractice of my lifetime”

I’m with ZH on this one. This is textbook journalistic malpractice, and dazzlingly so. The Russia-bashing and Putin demonization we’ve thus endured has taken it to another level. But this, however, is the most blatant act of deception I have ever seen - positively criminal!

What’s even crazier is that so many other mainstream media outlets are perpetrating this overt act of journalistic malpractice in concert. It’s as if, dare I say, there's some kind of conspiracy. I keep forgetting only six corporations control 90% of the media.

I don’t know what is more alarming: the open act of election manipulation itself, or the fact that they can get away with it in broad daylight.

We’ve officially got a situation on our hands, folks. The mainstream media is no longer just an unreliable source of information. They are openly displaying criminal behavior. It's out of control. The time to act was yesterday.

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