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      'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock--But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders

      'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock--But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders

      It was like watching "manufacturing consent in action,' said Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson.

      Jake Johnson
      Dec 02, 2019

      A Monday night PBS NewsHour segment on the state of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary highlighted Sen. Amy Klobuchar's new ad campaign in Iowa, the departure of marginal candidates Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak, a tender campaign moment with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden's "No Malarkey" bus tour--but did not once even mention Sen. Bernie Sanders despite recent key endorsements and a surge in the polls.

      Sanders' presidential campaign has repeatedly accused the corporate media of ignoring the senator from Vermont, a phenomenon Sanders supporters have dubbed the "Bernie blackout."

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      Common Cause Delivers 98,000 Petitions Urging PBS to Air Impeachment Proceedings in Prime Time

      Today, Common Cause delivered petitions from over 98,000 Americans to PBS urging the nation's public broadcaster to televise the full impeachment hearings of President Trump in prime time. The petitions stress the importance of PBS airing the hearings in their entirety both live and again during prime time on its flagship all-access public channels nationwide.

      Newswire Editor
      Nov 18, 2019

      Today, Common Cause delivered petitions from over 98,000 Americans to PBS urging the nation's public broadcaster to televise the full impeachment hearings of President Trump in prime time. The petitions stress the importance of PBS airing the hearings in their entirety both live and again during prime time on its flagship all-access public channels nationwide. That is exactly what PBS did during the Watergate hearings as Congress weighed the fate of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

      "Every American should have the chance to see the full case against Donald Trump firsthand in prime time in order to make up their own mind about whether their elected Representatives in Congress should impeach the President," said Michael Copps, former FCC Commissioner and Common Cause Special Advisor. "History is unfolding on Capitol Hill while most Americans are at work or school and as the nation's public broadcaster, PBS should be airing the proceedings during prime time as service to the nation. PBS should ensure that everyone has the opportunity to view the entire process rather than have it delivered to them in soundbites and with partisan spin. The impeachment hearings are too important to the future of our democracy for the nation's public broadcasters not to air them in prime time."

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      Backing Call for Prime Time Impeachment Hearings, Petition Signed by Nearly 100K Delivered to PBS

      Backing Call for Prime Time Impeachment Hearings, Petition Signed by Nearly 100K Delivered to PBS

      "History is unfolding on Capitol Hill while most Americans are at work or school and as the nation's public broadcaster, PBS should be airing the proceedings during prime time as [a] service to the nation."

      Julia Conley
      Nov 18, 2019

      Nearly 100,000 Americans in a petition delivered by the grassroots group Common Cause on Tuesday joined veteran journalist Bill Moyers' call for PBS to re-air impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump in their entirety during prime time.

      Common Cause gathered in just seven days the signatures of more than 98,000 people across the U.S. who want the nation's public broadcasting network to show not just live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the historic proceedings, but also air the hearings in the evening after many Americans get home from work and school.

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