Despots know the media glare can’t last forever
Aug 05, 2021
3 minutes
It is striking how, in recent days, the world’s media have suddenly focused, like the circling beam of some giant lighthouse, on two struggling former democracies on opposite sides of the world: Lebanon on the Mediterranean, and Myanmar nearly 4,000 miles away by the Indian Ocean.
But the two stories are related, and not just because of the suffering being visited on millions of people in both places.
They’re each subject to the fickleness of the lighthouse.
It is the calendar that has dictated the recent spurt of
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