How the Media Misrepresent Obama’s “Fast Track” “Secret” International Trade Deals

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6. Saw that earlier. GlobalResearch can be good but when it's bad it's very bad.

The all-conspiracy-all-the-time outlook sometimes produces ridiculous conclusions like Dr. Zeuse here:

It’s fine, up to a point, to report what a politician says, but not beyond that point, where the politician is saying things that mislead or even outright lie. Beyond that point, authentic journalism consists only of investigative journalism — such as here.

However, mainly, investigative journalism ignores the biggest scandal of all, which is the corruption that’s rampant in ‘our’ ‘free’ press. This is a news-beat that’s simply too hot to touch. It’s ignored even by both the liberal (fair.org and mediamatters.org) and the conservative (aim.org andmrc.org) media-watchdog organizations. It’s journalism’s orphan, because ‘journalism’ is owned by the aristocracy, and no aristocrats want it to become honest. Aristocrats instead want honest journalists to become fired. Journalists just want to keep their jobs.

If he's trying to claim that the US press is some kind of faithful stenographer of the President's position, on TPP or anything else, he's sadly mistaken.