Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), speaks during a health-care bill news conference on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13. “We expect that we’ll have a larger viewing audience for this live stream than we’d have if we’d run it on, say, CNN,” Sanders said in an interview. The idea came to him, he said, after appearing in CNN-hosted debates and forums on health care and taxes — experiences he’d mostly enjoyed — and hit a wall. NowThis had recorded popular, short videos with Sanders, talking about his 2016 campaign platform; the Young Turks had gotten him in its Los Angeles studio for lengthy interviews. “I think there is an envy on the part of progressives, and most Democrats, of the Republican media world,” said Sanders.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2018 14:36 UTC