Shortly after external protests and internal conflicts hit the Seattle WTO Ministerial and stalled a new negotiating round, The Economist magazine ran a picture of a poor child from India on it cover, with the caption: The real losers from Seattle.
The implication of this cover, and the accompanying story, was clear: well-intentioned but misguided protesters were essentially denying the benefits of free trade to countries like India, and were thus unwittingly torpedoing the interests of the poorest of the poor.
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