I listen to Democracy Now! quite a bit. I've listened to Democracy Now! since its inception, in fact.

Democracy Now! is not an NPR production. Democracy Now! has always been, in fact, affiliated with Pacifica Radio.

NPR and Pacifica are two vastly different news organizations.

Democracy Now! does air on some NPR affiliate stations, these days. They've expanded their outlet base quite a bit, in fact. Well, that's successful marketing for you. Popular demand, and all that.

You like that, right? If you don't, maybe you should call for a boycott.

Look, I try to tell the commies that they don't need to be ashamed of success, on acount of putting out a professional product full of valuable information with a higher accuracy content and greater depth than the news media giants- occasionally featuring lengthy debates with full opportunity for opposing sides to make their points, incredibly enough.

But I sense that they're still conflicted.

Whatever.

I listen to DN! for content- particularly for iconoclastic viewpoints that I don't get elsewhere. I find it more entertaining than the usual routine in American broadcast media, of hearing overpaid suck-ups batting the same old canards and cliches around, coasting with an emphasis on banal non-information like reporting fund-raising totals and name-checking celebrities.

The more meritorious the iconoclastic points made, the better, of course.

Sometimes I roll my eyes at various episodes of ideological bias, special pleading, or associated pet hobbyhorses of the radical Left. But taken as a whole, I find the signal-to-noise ratio remarkably high.

I heard Amy Goodman clobber Bill Clinton more forcefully, face-to-face, than any other interviewer I've ever heard.

She'd do it to one of your boys, too, Elephantman. Too bad they won't give her the opportunity.

DN is, by and large, well-done, authentic journalism. Well worth the money I've spent on the program.

But no, Democracy Now! is not an NPR production.

That's an elementary point, by the way.

(click on my signature for link to the DN archive!)

I noticed that you didn't respond to the challenge I posed at the end of the comment I posted on page 44.

Instead, you tried to finesse it with your evasion on page 46, like a jive-ass college kid faking his way through an essay question on a test in a class that he'd mostly slept through.

Beware of being misled by poor role models.