Ted Rall for September 28, 2000

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Freedom of the free trade press So you wanna work for the media? First you'll need to sell the pro-nafta, pro-wto propaganda pushed by the corporations that own it. Here's a tutorial for aspiring journalists: Clinton said we'd pull out of nafta if we lost jobs. We did lose jobs. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Never, ever follow up. Ignore inconvenient fact. Shipping jobs overseas is creating wage stagnation. Yes, but it's also fighting inflation! Act worldly. The vast majority of Americans are against free trade. What do people know? They're too ignorant to know what's good for us, er, them. And best of all... Fetishize the irrelevant. Please read these reports about the environmental impact of free trade. "Sally, 23, wore a nose ring. She smelled vaguely of macrobiotic vegetables."