>Washington: With the Khodorkovsky trial in Russia now concluded,
>Western journalists and commentators need to ask themselves some
>hard questions about the record of their profession.
>
>They might begin by making a comparison between the amount of space,
>and outrage, devoted by the Western media to this trial and the
>limited attention and anger directed by the same Western media to
>the process by which Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the other "oligarchs"
>acquired their immense wealth in the first place.
Stunningly, I once heard an American journalist who covered Russia defend the oligarchs by saying that "at least they made things work."
Doug