Washington Post Continues NAFTA Cheerleading in Front Page Story

The Washington Post feels no need to observe normal journalistic standards when it comes the NAFTA. When the trade agreement was being debated in 1993 it virtually turned the paper (both the news and opinion pages) into an advocacy organization. It continues this pattern even to this day.

As a result, when NAFTA was being debated in the Democratic primaries in 2007, it had a lead editorial in which it harshly criticized the candidates and absurdly claimed that Mexico's GDP had quadruped since...