Norman Solomon: We’ve seen a real strong tendency of the corporate-owned and corporate-subsidized media such as NPR and PBS to not go very deeply into the realities of the economic progressive populism that Bernie Sanders represents. He’s really taking on, with the strength of a presidential campaign that is unprecedented in this country in memory, the power structure of Wall Street. And that does not sit well with the mass media. […] A few days ago when the New York Times editorially endorsed Hillary Clinton for president with a flourish, there was so much smoke that I couldn’t recognize her. She was this paragon of idealism, she was willing to challenge corporate and undemocratic interests. It was just this fantasy that, because the New York Times is eager not only to get her elected but to get Bernie Sanders defeated, she’s got a halo over her head…
