[rad-green] Bernie Sanders Tops New California Poll —But You Wouldn't Have Known It By Reading This LA Ti mes Headline

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Dreams          December 5, 2019Bernie Sanders Tops New California Poll—But
You Wouldn't Have Known It By Reading This LA Times Headline*


*In latest #BernieBlackout example, Sanders' deputy campaign manager notes
it took major newspaper "three paragraphs to mention who is leading."by
Jake Johnson, staff writer*

*Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to
supporters during a campaign rally in Los Angeles, California on November
16, 2019. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)*

A new poll
<https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-05/democrats-2020-race-california-poll>
released
Thursday found that Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the 2020 Democratic
presidential field in California—but you wouldn't have known it by reading
the *Los Angeles Times*' original headline
<https://twitter.com/commondreams/status/1202583187458854917> on the
survey, which mentioned Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe
Biden, but not the senator from Vermont.

"Warren and Biden lose ground in California's shifting 2020 Democratic
race," read the newspaper's initial headline which, in the face of
backlash, was later changed to
<https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-05/democrats-2020-race-california-poll>,
"Warren and Biden lose ground, Sanders moves ahead in California's shifting
2020 Democratic race."

While the *Times* changed its headline, it did not alter the body of the
story
<https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-05/democrats-2020-race-california-poll>,
which doesn't mention Sanders until the third paragraph.

"The Democratic presidential contest in California remains extremely
fluid—but not enough, at least so far, to provide an opening for Michael
Bloomberg," reads the story's lede paragraph.

The poll, conducted for the *Times* by the U.C. Berkeley Institute of
Governmental Studies, found that Sanders is leading the California
presidential primary race at 24% support and has gained 5% since September.

Warren polled in second place at 22% (down 7% since September), Biden in
third at 14% (down 6% since September), and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete
Buttigieg in fourth at 12% (up 6% since September). The survey's margin of
error is plus or minus 4%.

"The person who gained ground is not allowed to be in the headline," Faiz
Shakir, Sanders' campaign manager, tweeted
<https://twitter.com/fshakir/status/1202580171389321217> in response to the
*Times* original headline.

Despite Sanders' jump since September, the *Times* framed the survey solely
around Warren and Biden's fall.

"That erosion has benefited Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who narrowly
tops the primary field," the *Times* reported.

The new survey, the *Times* noted, also found that Sanders is leading 2020
Democratic field in California "on three other attributes—being the
candidate who would bring the right kind of change to Washington (28%), the
one who comes closest to sharing voters' values (27%) and the candidate who
best understands the problems of 'people like you' (28%)."

The newspaper's treatment of Sanders on this poll was for many observers
just the latest example
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/03/hes-justerased-pbs-2020-segment-finds-time-klobuchar-sestak-and-bullock-completely>
of
a trend by many mainstream outlets
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/05/examples-mount-sanders-campaign-accuses-corporate-media-deliberate-attempt-erase>
of
ignoring, sidelining, or otherwise downplaying the Sanders presidential
campaign—a phenomenon some refer to as the #BernieBlackout
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieBlackout?src=hashtag_click>.

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