Left-wing media critics I have debated over the years have repeatedly bashed the slanted “corporate media.” But now that a Republican presidential candidate has taken up this charge, with concrete proof, they are shying away from supporting his critique. You see, these critics were Bernie Sanders supporters, and Sanders has sold out to those special interests by throwing his support to the corporate candidate, Democrat Hillary Clinton. As I debated Steve Rendall of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) on the SUNY New Paltz campus on Thursday night, I heard him say that there was no doubt that the corporate special interests were backing Mrs. Clinton over Donald J. Trump. But Steve can’t take the further step of declaring his sympathy for Trump’s critique of the media, even though Trump is echoing much of what has been the left-wing attack on the media for many years. “The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media,” declared Trump. “Let’s be clear on one thing: the corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda. And their agenda is to elect the Clintons at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it is a war—and for them, nothing is out of bounds.”

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