[GTALUG] The Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Threatens Innovation

[John Moniz]

On 12/27/2015 11:04 PM, Alex Volkov wrote:
> Ugh. The article starts with good ol' jingoism and then proceed not to 
> give a single citation of the TPP,  condensing to just bunch of 
> paraphrasing taken out of context. Not that the TPP doesn't have its 
> problems but this is really not a good piece of journalism.
>
> Planet money gave much better and way less panicky explanation of the 
> TPP -- 
> http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/06/455055023/episode-662-omg-tpp
>
> Alex.
>

Reading the comments it seems that many people didn't think very highly 
of Planet Money's journalism on this piece either.

> On 26/12/15 08:17 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Scary stuff actually.
>>
>> The agreement is to benefit existing corporations and stifle new 
>> initiatives.
>>
>>
>> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/trans-pacific-partnership-is-a-wonderful-idea-for-china/article27939142/ 
>>
>>
>
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