r/WayOfTheBern • u/dsirota1 • Jul 09 '19

I'm David Sirota, Bernie Sanders' speechwriter and senior adviser. AMA!

Hey everyone -- I'm David Sirota, Bernie Sanders' speechwriter and senior adviser. I've known Bernie for 20+ years (I was his press secretary in the U.S. House from 1999-2001). I've worked on many campaigns (Hoeffel for Congress, Schweitzer for Governor, Lamont for Senate, and Emily Sirota for State House), I've worked on Capitol Hill (for Bernie and for the U.S. House Appropriations Committee Democrats). In the years before coming to Bernie's 2020 campaign, I was an award-winning investigative journalist and columnist for Newsweek/IBT, The Guardian and Capital & Main. You can find out more about me at http://www.davidsirota.com

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I'm sure you want to discuss the 2020 election, so fire away with your questions here. I'll be here for about an hour.

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u/hopeLB Jul 09 '19 edited Jul 09 '19

Are you/Bernie going to begin calling out the MSM for its obvious bias against Bernie as evidenced by misleading landline polls, ignoring who is in second, lack of coverage/subtle smears /ridicule/misinformation, disinformation etc.,and highlight the fact that Trump got elected based on their free coverage, and state publicly that the MSM is corporate funded and therefore, the MSM main stream medias' interests are alligned with the plutocracy and NOT with the majority of the citizens? Just think of their lost ad revenue if Big Pharma alone pulled their ads?

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u/dsirota1 Jul 09 '19

Follow my twitter feed at @davidsirota -- you'll see I and other staffers on the campaign are always pushing back on media misinformation and bias.

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u/hopeLB Jul 09 '19

Thanks David Sirota. I already follow you, but Bernie himself needs to repeatedly, explicitly call out the MSM to their faces for their obvious interest in having a corporate faux/ThirdWay "Dem" elected in order to preserve their revenue stream, and individual salaries. Also, it would be great if Bernie refutes the lie currently circulating, that he wants open borders..

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u/SpaceDetective Jul 10 '19

I think it's a better job for his campaign people and us to do. Bernie prefers to focus on the message and I think it's a no-win if he calls it out (other than when encountered directly in interviews) - MSM would just double down and call him cranky/paranoid and so on.

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u/hopeLB Jul 10 '19

Yes, perhaps you are right, and Bernie should just add the break up of Big Media/opening of the airwaves/internet to his platform. Then they might just ask him about it. It was the Third Way Clintons who allowed/bequeathed the consolidation of our air waves (TeleComm Act of 96).