TPP TV Blackout

[G_j]

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A big controversy that isn't news--but look what is...
4/24/14

Barack Obama is traveling to several Asian countries this week, and high on the agenda is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secretive corporate-friendly commercial agreement that has mobilized critics around the globe. The deal is even running into stiff resistance in Congress.

But the TPP is not, according to the big TV networks, news. As FAIR documented (Extra!, 3/14) in the year after Obama mentioned TPP in his 2013 State of the Union address, there were no stories about TPP on the three major networks.
FAIR wants you to sign a petition to ABC, CBS and NBC to encourage them to cover what is by any standard a big news story.
And we've made a short video that we think drives home the point. Take a look:

[sabrina 1]

1. The corporate media would prefer to protect its own interests. We don't have a news

media, we have Corporate 'news'.

Thanks for the OP, at least someone is paying attention to important issues that will affect everyone.

[G_j]

2. I know

It's been beyond the pale for so long. FAIR has to be overwhelmed, and it just gets worse.

[sabrina 1]

3. It has gotten worse, Robert Parry talked about that in a recent article. That's why we need the

internet and that is why they are proposing 'new rules' for the Internet, their next takeover of a source of information for the people, if we let them.

[G_j]

4. new rules

all very deliberate