NAFTA and The Media

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"As a news event, NAFTA started slowly and built to a crescendo in the final days. For much of the history of the agreement, the news media paid little attention, and the public paid even less. The issues were complicated, and the agreement itself ran to several thousand pages of dense material, including numerous charts and tables as well as complex regulations covering minute elements in the overall agreement. At the end, however, NAFTA became what Americans love most, a horse race, with two strong contenders battling it out down to the wire. the news media responded accordingly and played the issue up as never before.


Early this year, the news media was still trying to gauge the agreement in terms of whether or not the public approved of it, and thus the news media was trying to present the matter as..."

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