Under the counter

Make your mind upIn order to preserve the last shreds of dignity available to myself and my fellow gentlemen of the press, I am generally reluctant to write articles that play up to our image as a sloppy and feckless bunch. After all, journalists always turn up in those polls of hated occupations somewhere between corporate lawyers and prominant Nazis. However, every so often I come across something that really does have to be commented on, and so it was last week when I saw a selection of articles that proved that, just sometimes, you really can write whatever the hell you want. It all kicked off innocently enough with a report from press agency Agence France-Presse headlined "France's BNP Paribas opposes...