[Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Media Unimpressed as Sanders Barely Gets Seventy Per Cent of Vote

[Mark Safron]

> Media Unimpressed as Sanders Barely Gets Seventy Per Cent of Vote
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> NEW YORK —Bernie Sanders failed to impress major media outlets over the weekend as he barely managed to win seventy per cent of the vote in three western primaries.
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> The major cable networks briefly mentioned Sanders’s vote tallies in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii but noted that he ran out of steam well shy of eighty per cent.
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> “There’s no point in sugarcoating it,” one analyst put it. “Rough night for Sanders.”
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> According to one cable executive, Sanders needs to “put up some big numbers fast” if he expects the networks to continue giving his campaign airtime.
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> “It’s going to be harder and harder to justify covering him while he’s stuck down in the seventy-per-cent range,” the executive said.
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> While Sanders campaign officials remain optimistic about the upcoming primary in Wisconsin, media outlets are calling it a “do or die” state after his sputtering finishes over the weekend.
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> “I think if he limps across the finish line with, say, seventy-five or seventy-nine per cent, it’s going to be time for him to reassess things,” one cable representative said. “That would have to be a wake-up call.”
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> A spokesperson for CNN could not be reached for comment, as the network was busy preparing a ninety-minute special on the birth of Donald Trump’s new grandchild.
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