Reply #137: No, but if you want to hurt Dems, control NPR. Dems listen to NPR. [View All]

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They don't watch Fox.

For example, I think NPR was responsible for a large part of the popularity of Howard Dean, and I don't think that was in the best interest of the Dems. (And guess who the first NPR reporter was who started planting the seeds about Howard Dean? Mara Liasson - Fox employee. So in a way, Fox is telling Democrats what to think of themsevles, but they aren't doing it on Fox. They'rd doing it on NPR.)

If you're a winger and you want to control what Dems think about their own party you're going to get way more mileage controlling NPR and the NYT than Fox.

And it's true that NPR is always on the side of neoliberalism and constantly turns the garden hose on any impulse by "liberals" to look for political solutions to social problems. (Their answer to every problem is "go spend your money.")