The term "democracy and freedom" is the most abused phrase in human history. Remember revolution war. It was for democracy and freedom although 8% of people were slaves. Both side of the civil war claimed to fight for freedom and democracy. Colonization and annexation of a country called Hawaii was also done in the name of freedom and democracy. Those term was also used by both sides of the two world wars. Japanese claimed that they started world war II for the democracy and freedom of Asian countries colonized by Europeans. I just wish Western Media stop using the term to justify whatever their government does to other countries

I clearly remember just a couple of months ago when Indian held its month-long election which killed, according to BBC, over 100 people in the process, mainstream wesern media such as BCC used to term the largest democracy in the world to describe India. The tone was "bravo!!!".
Ok, so India is the largest democracy in the world due to its population and also due to the fact that its runs election.

But what about Iran? Nobody calls Iran a democracy even though it also runs election. Only when the disbute on the election results erupted western media became excited and start to carry out their duty to promote democracy by supporting ... certainly ... the opposition party.

And we also remember not too long ago in 2006 Palestine also ran a legislative election and Hamas won. Well, nobody in the west seemed to be interesting in defending the democratic value by respecting the election results. On the controrary, since Hamas is considerred a terrist group, sanctions were therefore imposed by many western countries to invoice their disapproval of the election results and the choice of the Palestinian people.

So, it appears to me the so-called democracy must serve a purpose. When democracy can be used as a moral weapon to fight against a regime like the CCP of China, democracy is a so-called universal value (so India is a democracy and China is not); but when a democratic process did not produce the results the west wishes to see, then democracy is not a universal value again. In stead, the interest of a nation of a group of nations prevails and the results of the democratic process are rejected. And the western media, who usually see themselves as the defender of the democratic value, remain silence. In fact, the focus of their reports shift to analyzing the national or collective interest, while completely ignoring that their national or collective interest is infact at odd with the democratic value they are supposed to defend.

So, this inconsistency makes the western media look extremely hypocratic in the eyes of the many outside of the so-called western world.

Of course, to many so-called western journalists. This world outside of the western world simply does not exist. So when they say "the whole world is... blah, blah, blah", they actually mean the "western world", which, in terms of the population, is in fact the minority of the world not the majority.