The NYTimes, a friend of America from way back

I'm reading Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden. It's a riveting book about the Iranian hostage crisis that began in November 1979. The book also covers the failed rescue mission.

I came across this passage on page 246. It seemed relevant, given the NY Times's near seditious acts lately.

A student would be allowed to make an opening and closing statement. Nilufar Ebtekar was choses by the council, because of her fluent English and because the council liked the idea of having their arguments presented by a woman. At first, Ebtekar was reluctant to appear on camera, but she agreed when it was decided to identify her only as "Mary."

She and the other hostage takers had been mystified by the lack of American support for their action, particularly the lack of sympathy from American blacks and other "oppressed minorities," and had concluded that their problem was media censorship in the United States. The American government was blocking and distorting their message. One effort to break through this supposed censorship was a half page ad in the New York Times (the Washington Post refused to run it) calling on Americans to "Rise Up Against Oppression," referring to the hostages as "spies" and placing Carter in "the vanguard of the world's oppressors."