Ignored Economic News of the Week: YTD Surplus with Free-Trade Countries |
| Published: July 26, 2008, 12:03 am |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, bias by omission, campaigns amp amp elections, economy, media bias debate, barack obama, george w bush, john mccain, online media, google |
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Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, while waffling, has wanted to appear to many of his constituents as being opposed to free trade agreements, or at least wanting to renegotiate the terms of many of them. On Wednesday, the Department of Commerce issued a press release, the kind of thing you would hope business journalists get in their e-mail boxes. But I found no coverage of this news in a Google News Search on [commerce "free trade'] (typed as indicated inside brackets). Perhaps it's because the news would be inconvenient for Obama, who is in the midst of an Excellent Overseas Adventure, speaking to fawning crowds who fortunately will have no say at the ballot box in November. Here is that news: U.S. Manufacturing Exports Swing from Deficit to Surplus with Free Trade Agreement Countries U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez announced new U.S. Commerce Department data showing that the United States is running a trade surplus in manufactured exports with [ Full article ] |
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