Candidate Sanders Slams Corporate Media

Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for president, vents his frustrations about corporate, mainstream media, calling for a Democratic-funded equivalent of Fox News, and political journalism that focuses more on the substance of solving the nation's problems than on the horse race of elections.

In an MSNBC interview over the weekend, Sanders criticized not only his main targets of big banks and millionaires and his more recent target of "establishment" politics, he went after the media too, saying Americans are, quote, "a little tired of corporate media as well."

When asked what the solution is, he said, "I think we have got to think about ways that the Democratic Party, for a start, starts funding the equivalent of Fox television," meaning Fox News Channel. He continued, "And Number 2, I think pressure has got to be put on media to say that, you know what? Maybe as a nation, the American people are entitled to hear real discussions on real issues," not process stories about the horse race aspect of politics or, quote, "What dumb thing did Donald Trump say yesterday?"