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Several News Outlets Attribute Bernie Sanders Debate Statements To Warren

Sanders and his supporters have many criticisms of the mainstream media - I know this seeing as I'm a supporter myself - with some suggesting a general apathy or dislike towards Sanders meanwhile others paint an image of powerful news barons in a smoke-filled back room menacingly twisting their mustaches, choosing not to cover Sanders fairly and at times dismissing his candidacy all together.

Few criticisms are as evident or obvious as this one, however. Three different news outlets were found to have deliberately attributed Sanders recent debate response to Elizabeth Warren, which is easily disputable when a transcript of the whole debate is easily accessible online via the Washington Post, or you could have simply watched the debate last week.

The first instance of false attribution is the one pictured above in which NBC claimed that Warren was the one who slammed those on stage for their defence of a broken healthcare system, which was followed by the misattribution of the same statement to Elizabeth Warren by both Boston .com and NY Mag's Intelligencer . These have all since been corrected, but the damage will have already been done as the majority of people will have been more likely to read these articles when they were first published last week, and most will have missed the misattribution and subsequent correction.


I'm not really someone who tends to put much stock in conspiracy theories or secretive powerful media overlords, but something is fishy here. The fact that three different major news outlets that seemingly actually watched the debate, all took the exact same quote and attributed it to the exact same person does leave something to the imagination. This was deemed one of Sanders' best moments of the night as it showed him fighting his detractors with much more vigor after his minor heart scare earlier in the month, something which Sanders said was a personal wake-up call.

If only there were videos circulating on social media on the night of the debate we could see just how wrong these three outlets were. Oh, there was? Excellent.

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