CNN's flagship business-news programme, Lou Dobbs Tonight, which you might expect to strive for economic literacy, has embarked on a rabidly anti-trade editorial agenda, with its host greeting every announcement of lost jobs as akin to a terrorist assault.The fact that foreign competition now impinges on services as well as manufacturing raises no new issues of principle whatever.
Any suggestion that an agreement was reached with Mr. Blair about trading editorial support for lax regulation of News Corporation is false.
"So Much for Those World Trade Talks" (editorial, April 21) implies that President Bush's selection of Susan C. Schwab, the deputy United States trade representative, to replace Rob Portman as trade representative signals flagging commitment to global trade talks.
Late on Monday, the Hearst Corporation issued a statement saying, "It is not now -- nor has it ever been -- a policy of The San Francisco Examiner to trade favorable editorial coverage for any gains, including political influence".
Meanwhile, next week Gilt Home will introduce a revamped and expanded site that includes designer boutiques from the likes of Laura Kirar, Bunny Williams and Alexa Hampton; furnishings from companies that previously sold only to the trade; and editorial features produced by Tom Delavan, the former editor at large of Domino magazine.
"The History of Trade, Part 2" (editorial, Nov. 12) criticizes the United States-China textile agreement as protectionist.
Now is the time to say it: affordable housing should be part of the redeveloped World Trade Center site (editorial, May 31).
In the last month and a half, however, trade associations, newspaper editorial boards, local officials and independent retailers have started warming to the notion.
Mr. Evans's past jobs include editor of The Times of London, president and publisher of the Random House trade group and editorial director and vice chairman of U.S. News & World Report, The Daily News and The Atlantic Monthly.
To be sure, Administration officials themselves were usually careful to include what is known in the editorial trade as a "to be sure" sentence, acknowledging that you never can tell, nothing is guaranteed, there might be bumps in the road.
