Story highlights Sanders blasted media companies as more interested in ratings and profits than truly reporting what is going on in America

Sanders has long been critical of the media

Dubuque, Iowa (CNN) Bernie Sanders made his animosity toward what he called the "corporate media" clear on Saturday here in Iowa, blasting the media companies as more interested in ratings and profits than truly reporting what is going on in America.

Sanders, speaking to roughly 1,000 people at a convention center on the banks of the Mississippi River, opened his speech by casting his campaign as "not a very fancy type of operation" that is focused on trying to "discuss the most important issue facing the American people."

The media, Sanders said, doesn't want to do that.

"The problem is that a lot of these issue are more complicated than a six-second sound byte and a lot of the issues we choose to raise end up in conflict with corporate America and the corporate media," Sanders said to applause. "But you know what, we are going to talk about those issues anyhow."

"This campaign is trying to be honest and lay the issues out on the table," Sanders added, arguing that media rarely talk about "the reality of America, the pain of America, what people are really going through."

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