Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE called for a more liberal version of Fox News to help fix the problems he sees in corporate media.

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“I think we have got to think about way that the Democratic party for a start starts funding the equivalent of Fox television,” he said in an interview that aired Friday on MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

Sanders blasted the media for shallow reporting, including coverage of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE.

“I think the American people are going to have to say to NBC and ABC and CBS and CNN, you know what, forget the political gossip," Sanders said. "Politics is not a soap opera. Talk about the real damn issues facing this country.”