Thanks to David Sirota: Falling into the category of ohmygod they are even worse than we thought. While on Russert, Friedman said: "We got this free market, and I admit, I was speaking out in Minnesota--my hometown, in fact, and guy stood up in the audience, said, `Mr. Friedman, is there any free trade agreement you'd oppose?' I said, `No, absolutely not.' I said, `You know what, sir? I wrote a column supporting the CAFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade initiative. I didn't even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade."
http://www.workingforchange.com/...
Sirota: "what's truly astonishing is that Tom Friedman, the person who the media most relies on to interpret trade policy, now publicly runs around admitting he actually knows nothing at all about the trade pacts he pushes in his New York Times column."
Time for another blogger ethics panel?
How about fair trade... free trade only with countries that have real citizens' and workers' rights, enforced locally appropriate minimum wage, indepdent trade unions. Probably a yes to India but a no to China?
But that would just be us wearing our tin foil chapeaus.