{"id":11480,"date":"2015-12-18T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:38:55","slug":"nytimes-fails-again-again-sanders-v-dnc-nation-cowers-in-fear-bradcast-12182015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11480","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes Fails Again (Again); Sanders v. DNC; Nation Cowers in Fear: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/18\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Obama_Sanders_NYT_SouthPark_121815.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, Congress and the President leave D.C. for the holidays, but not before <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/house-senate-rush-send-huge-budget-tax-deal-080900434--politics.html\">coming together<\/a> to pass a huge, bi-partisan(!) spending and tax bill.<\/p>\n<p>Peace on Earth? Not quite, but its a start, as Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/12\/18\/press-conference-president-121815\">noted<\/a> in his year end press conference today.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, another <a href=\"http:\/\/publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/18\/new-york-times-san-bernardino-correction-margaret-sullivan-public-editor\/?_r=0\">massive reporting failure<\/a> from the <i>New York Times<\/i> (once again) creates confusion for the nation following the recent terror attack in San Bernardino, prompting its Public Editor to call for &#8220;systematic change&#8221; in the way stories are reported at the nation&#8217;s so-called &#8220;paper of record&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Bernie Sanders campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/263779-sanders-sues-democratic-party\">files suit<\/a> against the DNC after being shut out from their own voter database following charges that his campaign inappropriately accessed Hillary Clinton&#8217;s voter data after a firewall went down on the DNC&#8217;s server. Sanders&#8217; supporters are crying foul against the Democratic Party, just one day before the next 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate (which is, again, being hidden on a Saturday &#8212; this one, just before Christmas &#8212; and on the same weekend the new <i>Star Wars<\/i> movie opens.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the nation continues to cower in fear &#8212; making GOP Presidential candidates very happy, no doubt &#8212; as another entire school district gets <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/augusta-virginia-schools-closed\">shuts down<\/a> on Friday over something even more absurd than what led to the shutdown of the L.A. school system earlier this week.  Are we becoming <i>South Park<\/i> Nation? That news (and much more) at week&#8217;s end may suggest as much.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_NYTimesFail_SandersDNC_Islamophobia_121815.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen to complete show online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_NYTimesFail_SandersDNC_Islamophobia_121815.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, Congress and the President leave D.C. for the holidays, but not before coming together to pass a huge, bi-partisan(!) spending and tax bill. Peace on Earth? Not quite, but its a start, as Obama noted in his year end press conference today. In the meantime, another massive reporting failure from the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,494,89,675,299,123,390,226,477,340,107,540,558,300,198,233,105,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-democrats","category-dnc","category-economy","category-hillary-clinton","category-kpfk","category-nancy-pelosi","category-national-security","category-oil","category-paul-ryan","category-republicans","category-us-house","category-us-senate","category-virginia","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}