HESIOD EMAILS that I should be embarrassed that the BBC is covering protests in Hong Kong. Huh? I’m criticizing them below (here and here) for downplaying protests in Iran (note to Hesiod: that’s a different country, and is not part of China).

And if the BBC did start giving Iranian freedom marchers the attention they deserve, I wouldn’t be embarrassed. I’d be pleased.

Meanwhile, this from Cox & Forkum seems to sum up the way Big Media have been covering Iran lately. And Andrew Sullivan has more about what happened to Iranian students.

If U.S.-hired thugs were doing this to anti-American protesters in Iraq, it would be all over the BBC, 24/7.

UPDATE: Hesiod emails back that the Beeb has covered this on TV, even if not on the web, and suggests that I’m too “web-centric.”

That’s probably a fair criticism (though this is a weblog) but I don’t get the Beeb. Other accounts, however, reflect poorly on the BBC’s broadcast coverage.