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NAFTA Redux: Reporters Again Refuse to Ask Simple Questions
Thanks to the now-famous abdication of responsibility by the media to actually "report" news in the lead up to the Iraq War, many people forget that the Washington press corps had displayed the same kind of power-worshiping proclivities during the debate over NAFTA 15 years ago (The most famous anecdote from the time came when polls showed the public opposed NAFTA, yet the Washington Post almost categorically refused to print any anti-NAFTA op-eds because its editor claimed with a straight face that the paper didn't want "to create an artificial balance where none existed"). But though Bill Moyers has recently humiliated Beltway reporters for their irresponsible behavior before the war, this same press corps seems uninterested in reforming itself as evidenced by its "coverage" today of the negotiations over global economic policy going on today between the White House and congressional Democrats.
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