Thomas Frank: How The Media 'Exterminated' Bernie Sanders And 'Real Reform'

WNYC | Oct 18, 2016

Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Thomas Frank joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to discuss why he believes the media, including the Washington Post, has largely opposed the campaign of Bernie Sanders. Frank concludes that real reform isn’t possible.

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Thomas Frank, contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and author of the recent book “Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?“

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