====== Double standards ======

The simplest method of smearing any organisation is to deliberately focus on some negative aspect of a country or person, while ignoring that same attribute in a country of organisation which is favoured. Those who push back on double standards are then accused of '[[what-aboutism]]'. The technique has an inherent '[[plausible deniability]]' aspect, in that the critic, most often a foreign journalist, makes a legitimate claim to being morally justified in pointing out the 'bad' in the world. 

===== "There's is bad, ours is good" =====
Not until we place reports side by side do we realise how skewed negative reporting can be. Consider this example, where reports of a rocket launched by China are set alongside the same outlet reporting on SpaceX.
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