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Bernie’s Fireside Chats

By
The Editors

Before there was a YouTube, and even before there was an internet, there was public-access television. Low-budget, talky, unglamorous, and unfiltered, it was the perfect venue for the political rise of none other than Bernie Sanders.

Before there was a YouTube, and even before there was an internet, there was public-access television. Low-budget, talky, unglamorous, and unfiltered, it was the perfect venue for the political rise of none other than Bernie Sanders.

Largely the single-handed work of Nat Ayer, the founder of CCTV (Chittenden Community Television), the series Bernie Speaks with the Community (sometimes called just Bernie Speaks) aired in the late 1980s in Burlington, Vermont, during Sanders’s mayorship.

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