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Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts)
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 06:59 PM Mar 2014

ABC, CNN, NBC, CNBC..Quit Lobbying for TPP and Start Reporting on it

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The reason you aren't hearing or seeing anything in the media about the corporate power grab disguised as a trade deal called the TPP is this: the media is lobbying FOR it.

Lobbying disclosure reports reveal the parent companies of CNN, MSNBC, ABC News and NBC News have all lobbied the federal government about the TPP. Collectively, these companies have dispatched more than a dozen lobbyists to Congress, yet done virtually no reporting on this very same trade deal, according to a recent Media Matters report.
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http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-report-media-lobbies-for-tpp-but-doesnt-report-it.html

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ABC, CNN, NBC, CNBC..Quit Lobbying for TPP and Start Reporting on it (Original Post) Teamster Jeff Mar 2014 OP
Reporting? What is this reporting you speak of? justhanginon Mar 2014 #1

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
1. Reporting? What is this reporting you speak of?
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 08:16 PM
Mar 2014

We are here to read whatever the corporate department of disinformation sends us. We are not familiar with the term, "reporting".

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