Senator burney sanders put out a statement this week and blamed the media as the main reason for why americans don't know what's in the bill, back better plan. He wrote at the top of the list, as the reality that the mainstreat media has done an exceptionally poor job in covering what actually is in the legislation. The only reason why every thing is being cut is because the media isn't telling people what it is, so there's no public pressure on legislators to keep that stuff in. It's not true that the media hasn't covered what is in the bill and doesn't continue to do so.
In this News Brief, we recapped how, in the face of a once in a generation opportunity to relieve poverty and address curb climate change, US media largely gave us personality, Horse Race coverage, and defensive snark–– aiding conservatives efforts to winnow down the bill to a fraction of its original size.