Big Blank Text Field

For some reason, my text field isn't showing it's value. I'm duplicating a movie clip then assigning a value to the text field contained in it. When I run a trace on iy, a value is returned but when I test the movie, nothing is shown in the text field... it's just blank.

Here's my code...

function createnews(){
var count = 0;
var modifier = 0;
while (count<10) {
name = "article"+String(count);
duplicateMovieClip("_root.container.news.article_m ain", name, count);
setProperty(this[name], _x, "190");
setProperty(name, _y, 50+modifier);
this[name].title.text="test";
trace (this[name].title.text);
modifier = modifier+100;
++count;
}
};

Anyone have any ideas??