On Friday afternoon, in the midst of massive protests across Iran that were raging for days (and several hours before the Venezuela story broke), I went on The New York Times home page to check out the coverage. At the same time, I went on the BBC home page to check their coverage. I read numerous posts on social media accusing the left of ignoring anything that can make Iran look bad. Yet the minute men and women in Iran rise up in resistance against the oppressive theocracy that immiserates and subjugates them, they go coy. They go back to tweeting about TV.”It’s one thing, of course, for hypocritical activists to show their shameless side; it’s quite another for a media company like The New York Times to emulate them.

Source: New York Times January 04, 2026 10:23 UTC