Reply #123: The media tried to destroy Kerry last fall. They thought they succeeded, [View All]

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but Kerry won it on the ground.

I believe the best evidence that Kerry was not the choice of the media is NPR's behaviour in the last week to ten days before Iowa.

First, I have to say that I believe that NPR is the bell-weather media whore. Pick your issue -- GMO, prescritption drugs, Venezuela -- and NPR has been on the side of corporations for about 8 years now.

In the run up to the Iowa caucus, NPR barely mentioned Kerry (or Edwards) and kept plugging away for Dean agressively. The MUST have seen the polls showing Dean dropping and Kerry and Edwards rising. So what was their reaction? More Dean (and Gephardt) and way way less Kerry and Edwards.

I think the Democrats did a REMARKABLE jog of NOT picking the candidates the media wanted this year.