America’s corporate media have generally displayed a zombie-like loyalty to the doctrines of “free trade” and unfettered corporate globalization, including the offshoring of US jobs from devastated American factory towns to low-wage, high-repression nations.But when an editor at America’s most influential newspaper, the New York Times — a paper that has long championed globalization in both its news coverage and editorially — declares that a national consensus exists on the “right” of US corporations to seek out poor nations where they can freely impose misery-level wages, it perhaps signals that major-media coverage of corporate globalization is becoming downright delusional.Thus we read a Sept. 14 Times article by Jeffrey Sommer, purporting to analyze the controversy over US firms staging “inversions” to avoid US taxes. Sommer takes elite media’s fawning support of globalization to hallucinatory heights by making the flat-out claim that a broad national consensus—including most American citizens — exists on the “right” of US firms to relocate jobs:“At this stage of globalization … most American consumers, investors and politicians have tacitly accepted that if a company is profitable, doesn’t violate the law and produces appealing products and services, it can operate wherever and however it likes. …”Read More.Source: Progressive Populist/Roger BybeeCertainly, there is no disputing Sommer’s all-too obvious assertion that large-scale investors and corporate CEOs unanimously embrace the unrestrained “right” to abandon the US in relocating production to potentially more profitable low-wage nations. Further, large corporate donors have forged a solid pro-globalization mentality at the highest levels of both parties. In 2012, Republican candidate Mitt Romney avidly “offshored” jobs to repressive low-wage nations like China and defended these practices. Democratic President Barack Obama, although pounding Romney on this issue, had jettisoned his own fierce 2008 anti-“free trade” positions by ramming through three NAFTA-style trade deals in 2011. Obama even declared, “as a general proposition, companies need to have the freedom to relocate.”However, Sommer very significantly neglects the fact that Democratic members of Congress have adopted a combative stance in challenging “free-trade” agreements dating back to NAFTA in 1993 to the current proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership.Meanwhile, Sommer’s blithe claim about “consumers”— which inevitably translates into a majority of Americas” –illustrates the yawning canyon between the perspectives of the journalistic elite and the majority of Americans.