This viral online program has little love for establishment Democrats. Its hosts and their guests mercilessly rip into several of the top Democrats in the presidential race and the media covering them. But one top-tier candidate typically gets spared.
When Krystal Ball goes live weekday mornings, a polished format and sleek visuals give her show a look that — at first glance — closely resembles the show she once co-hosted on MSNBC.
“The mainstream media was shocked at how Bernie came out of nowhere,” said Jeff Cohen, a retired journalism professor at Ithaca College and founder of the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. This new generation of progressive media includes widely read outlets such as the Intercept and Common Dreams, as well as niche online programs like “The Michael Brooks Show,” and Jacobin, the magazine of choice for young socialists.
“This media helps Sanders build his base, but it is niche media,” said Dave Karpf, a political scientist at George Washington University who focuses on grassroots movements.“You can’t expand to a broader electorate with just niche media. You need that mainstream media that is currently counting him out or under-covering him.
The campaign has many ties to the alternative media. National press secretary Briahna Joy Gray was the political editor at the Intercept. Among the reporters in the press section of a small organic-farming forum featuring Sanders in Story City, Iowa, last week was Margot McMillen, host of “Farm and Fiddle” on KOPN-FM , a community-run progressive radio station in Columbia, Mo. She drove all day to be there.
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