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At a White House signing on Monday, President Trump and representatives from Japan signed what the President called “the new U.S.-Japan trade agreement and the U.S.-Japan digital trade agreement.” The non-digital trade agreement included agriculture sales that would aid American farmers. After months of decrying how the President’s trade wars were harmful to farmers, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC completely ignored the signing.
While the networks were busy celebrating a reported second whistleblower with “first hand” information about Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine, PBS’s News Hour gave the signing a little bit airtime.
And by “little bit”, it really was minute. Fill-in anchor Amna Nawaz sprinted through the story giving it a mere two sentences in 11 seconds. “President Trump signed a limited trade deal with Japan today. It restores benefits that U.S. farmers lost when he withdrew from a broader agreement, negotiated by the Obama administration,” she reported in the news brief.
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