Re: <nettime> Ten Theses on the Panama Papers

[olia lialina <olia@profolia.org>]

On 05.04.2016 20:42, Florian Cramer wrote:

>     What did you learn from the Panama Papers? That African, Russian,
>     Ukrainian and Asian 'elites' are corrupt? Well, this should have been
>     known a for long time, with or without Panama Papers. Sure, it's never
>     bad when stories about the international financial system's obfuscation
>     machinery get out, provoking a political debate for at least a couple
>     of days. That these debate have no political consequences, is part of
>     the choreography. Next week, there's some other "news of the day", only
>     a month later, nobody will know remember the exact spelling of Mossack
>     Fonseca. These are firm rituals of our attention economy that we can't
>     change.

To quote sarcastic grin of Putin's press secretary: "Quality 
investigative journalism has fallen into oblivion."

https://meduza.io/news/2016/04/04/peskov-ne-nashel-v-panamskom-arhive-nichego-novogo-o-putine 
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