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From EFF:
The U.S. Senate has paved the way for the passage of Fast Track legislation, to give the White House and the U.S. Trade Representative almost unilateral power to negotiate and finalize secret anti-user trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Yesterday a "cloture" vote was held—this was a vote to end debate on Fast Track and break any possibility for a filibuster, and it passed by the minimum votes needed—60 to 37. Today, the Senate voted to pass the legislation itself. TPP proponents only needed 51 votes, a simple majority, to actually pass the bill, and they got it in a 60 to 38 vote. Following months and months of campaigning, Congress has ultimately caved to corporate demands to hand away its own constitutional mandate over trade, and the President is expected to the sign the bill into law as early as tonight or later this week.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Zz9zZ on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:49AM
Well, not much collusion is needed when most outlets are owned by the same corporation... However it is also the good old ratings effect. What would get more readers, complicated international trade agreements, or an emotionally charged american flag issue. Its evident right here as someone pointed out, way more comments about the flag than the TPP. Although, there isn't much discussion to be had about the TPP beyond "sucky deal forced down our throats" where this flag issue has a lot of social facets we can discuss.
~Tilting at windmills~