Of the 2 articles, I think the Globe is closer to the mark.I largely trust openmedia.ca on this and other IP issues, and they've been VERY strongly against it. Most recently: https://openmedia.org/en/tpp-long-road-fairer-copyright../DaveOn 27 December 2015 at 23:57, John Moniz <john.moniz@sympatico.ca> wrote: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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