Professor Bayles on covering Bernie Sanders

'Who's this Bernard Sanders?' I asked in 1972. My editor's reply: 'Forget it'

When I encountered Sanders at a Burlington demonstration, my editor said there was no story. But today’s presidential candidate has hardly changed

More than 40 years later, that first Bernie experience – and the others that followed – feels like today. Sanders has physically aged; the dark curly hair is straighter and white, the voice softer, the tone less strident. But his message has remained remarkably consistent for a former neighborhood rabble-rouser who became a U.S. senator and a serious presidential candidate.