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103. The two major parties offer voters “a clear-cut choice,” so there is “no driving logic for a third-party candidacy this year,” according to the editors of the New York Times: “Mr. Nader’s Misguided Crusade,” June 10, 2000.
104. Especially after World War II, the military budget, and therefore the taxpayer, financed a very large fraction of the basic science that underpinned advances in the aircraft, computer, and electronics industries, the Internet economy, most of the biotech industry, and many others.
105. On the public opposition to the NAFTA agreement, see Herman, Myth of the Liberal Media, pp. 185–86. A Business Week/Harris poll in early 2000 revealed that only 10 percent of those polled called themselves “free traders”; 51 percent called themselves “fair traders” and 37 percent “protectionists.” “Harris Poll: Globalization: What Americans Are Worried About,” Business Week, April 24, 2000.
106. For more extended accounts, see Herman, Myth of the Liberal Media, chapter 14; Thea Lee, “False Prophets: The Selling of NAFTA,” Briefing Paper, Economic Policy Institute, 1995; John McArthur, The Selling of “Free Trade” (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000).
107. Thomas Lueck, “The Free Trade Accord: The New York Region,” New York Times, November 18, 1993.
108. Editorial, “NAFTA’s True Importance,” New York Times, November 14, 1993.
109. On the refusal of the administration to allow any labor inputs in arriving at the NAFTA agreement, contrary to law, and the media’s disinterest in this as well as any other undemocratic features of the creation of this and other trade agreements, see Noam Chomsky, World Orders Old and New (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 164–78.
110. See Herman, Myth of the Liberal Media, pp. 183–85.
111. Citations from Seth Ackerman, “Prattle in Seattle: WTO coverage Misrepresented Issues, Protests,” EXTRA! (January–February 2000), pp. 13–17.
112. Rachel Coen, “For Press, Magenta Hair and Nose Rings Defined Protests,” EXTRA! (July–August 2000). An exception at the time of the Washington meetings and protests was Eric Pooley’s “IMF: Dr. Death?” Time, April 24, 2000.
113. See Walden Bello, “Why Reform of the WTO Is the Wrong Agenda” (Global Exchange; 2000).
114. Edward P. Morgan, “From Virtual Community to Virtual History: Mass Media and the American Antiwar Movement in the 1960s,” Radical History Review (Fall 2000); Todd Gitlin, The Whole World Is Watching (Berkeley; University of California Press, 1980).
115. Rachel Coen, “Whitewash in Washington: Media Provide Cover as Police Militarizes D.C.,” EXTRA! (July–August 2000); Ackerman, “Prattle in Seattle”; Neil deMause, “Pepper Spray Gets in Their Eyes: Media Missed Militarization of Police Work in Seattle,” EXTRA! (March–April 2000).
116. Coen, Ackerman, and deMause items cited in note 115.
117. Nichole Christian, “Police Brace for Protests in Windsor and Detroit,” New York Times, June 3, 2000.
118. CBS Evening News Report, April 6, 2000.
119. Zachary Wolfe, National Lawyers Guild legal observer coordinator, concluded that “police sought to create an atmosphere of palpable fear,” and that anyone even trying to hear dissident views ran a risk of police violence “just for being in the area where speech was taking place.” Quoted in Coen, “Whitewash in Washington.”
120. See Rachel Coen, “Free Speech Since Seattle: Law Enforcement’s Attacks on Activists—and Journalists—Increasing.” EXTRA! November–December 2000.
121. See Frank Donner, Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994); William Puette, Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).
122. Kim Moody, Workers in a Lean World (London: Verso, 1997), p. 24.
123. Aaron Bernstein, “The Workplace: Why