about the way that “mainstream” Western “journalism” keeps juggling those double standards as corruption looms large in the Panama papers. At Consortium News, he decries the way that the media industry:
“no longer even tries to apply common standards to questions about corruption. If you’re a favored government, there might be lamentations about the need for more ‘reform’ – which often means slashing pensions for the elderly and cutting social programs for the poor – but if you’re a demonized leader, then the only permissible answer is criminal indictment and/or ‘regime change.'”