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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (19848)	7/31/2001 9:57:53 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

There is NO Big Media indignation over the trucking regs which violate NAFTA because they come from demolibs. That is the point.... Wasn't one of the editorials cited from the New York Times? Doesn't that qualify as Big Media? That is an assumption, which you make because it suits your ideological predisposition. My point is that implementing regulations, particularly those that affect only a relatively small constituency, never get any attention from big media, whether republicons or demolibs are involved. NAFTA itself got as much attention as Kyoto or BMD, likely more. The effort to view everything that happens in the world through the boring and seldom relevant lens of the battle between the demolib and the republicon is, IMO, rather silly. Issues like free trade, which from an economic perspective is probably the most important matter under discussion today, simply don't break down that way: there are supporters and opponents on both sides. There are smart people with good points on both sides. There are also stupid parrot-headed ideologues on both sides. Why get tied up in the quarrels of the latter?