No TPP coverage main stream media

A most interesting article about the corporate media's US coverage of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that has so riled the online world. I'd have to say it's not a lot different here. I don't even bother watching the telly nightly news anymore as there's fuck all on it. Justin Beiber did something, bla.... But nothing about a trade agreement being put up by Washington that would affect 26% of the world's trade and hand power to multinational corporations over sovereign gov's. 

You'd think this would be a hugely important public interest story as it so affects people's lives. You'd think there'd be public discussions, documentaries, debate, heaps of news coverage. But this is all the coverage it got through the US corporate media:

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As far as the main stream media goes, I can't see how it can survive if it continues down this path of becoming more and more irrelevant. People eventually will just stop watching the shit and get their news elsewhere. It seems to me this is a developing trend. The same thing happened with the Sochi online campaign; it has been a huge online campaign raising awareness of Russian LGBT, but there's been not a lot about it in the main stream media until the last 3 or so months. And when it did get on the news it was only in reference to the already existing online campaign. 

BTW the TPP, only because of this huge online protests about it campaigning to can the thing, now looks like it's in serious trouble in Washington. No thanks to the irrelevant corporate media:  

Progressives and liberal lawmakers who are working hard to block the massive free trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration have just gotten a big boost from someone they’d been aggressively courting: Nancy Pelosi. 

In an event with labor officials on Capitol Hill today, Pelosi delivered her strongest statement yet of opposition to the bill that would grant the Fast Track Authority sought by the administration to negotiate a sweeping free trade deal with a dozen Pacific countries. The bill — co-sponsored by Dem Senator Max Baucus and GOP Rep. Dave Camp — is strongly opposed by labor, liberal groups and many Congressional Dems. 

“No on Fast Track — Camp-Baucus — out of the question,” Pelosi said, according to a transcript of her remarks forwarded to me by her office. She also told assembled steelworkers: “We cannot support Camp-Baucus. We cannot support Camp-Baucus.” more