[video=youtube;Rkgx1C_S6ls]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls[/video] Despite the mass protests in many of the large cities in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, the controversy of NAFTA was little discussed in the American media.
Not to mention that every WTO meeting needs an army to perform security due to the near riots that follow in its wake. I'm from Seattle, and the WTO riots we had were all about outsourcing, and free trade agreements. There were a lot of union members out protesting.
Well, there is a reason these people are angry. (I am not saying I approve of the riots though) Here are some pictures from the Seattle WTO riots in 1999:
What is really notable about the free trade agreements and associated mass protests was the media's coverage (or lack thereof) and commentary. One would think that at least some of the mainstream Progressive newspapers would have been against the trade agreements, but this was not the case at all. Not even the New York Times sided with these protesters, the same newspaper that recently gave sympathetic coverage to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Good link that explain's the media's one-sided coverage, and the actual issues surrounding the protests: http://www.fair.org/extra/0001/wto-prattle.html The anti-WTO protests in Korea and Japan were on a large scale and especially violent, but got only passing mention in the American media. The real question is why the American media was unanimously in support of the WTO, despite the massive opposition from environmentalists and labor groups.
