At times my contempt for newspapers is so intense that I literally find myself shaking.

That’s what happened yesterday when I saw this in the once-great New York Times:

What exactly are Times editors trying to do here? Are they daring Iran to escalate the war? Or are they simply urging them to jump in and get World War III started?

It’s one or the other.

In the days since the October 7th barbaric attack on innocent Israelis, sympathy for Hamas and Palestinians at The New York Times has grown. Remember, the paper was quick to report that an Israeli air strike had taken out a Gaza hospital and glacially slow to take it down

Their serial sob stories about the suffering in Gaza are predictable, yet they still haven’t published an editorial calling on Hamas to surrender and free the hostages.

That, of course, would end the fighting.

At times like this I look back over my life and wonder why I wasted 42 years in journalism. Why did I believe the work we were doing was important? It certainly isn’t important anymore.

Almost all American newspapers were left-leaning even 50 years ago. But until the past decade, journalists pretended to be non-partisan.

The appearance of Donald Trump changed that. Members of the media cast off their thin veneer of objectivity and embarked on loud crusades to vilify the former president. Next, the young lefties running newspapers, squishy children that they are, fought to keep conservative opinions off their pages.

They worry obsessively about pronouns and capitalizing the b in black but engage in repulsive moral equivalency when it comes to Israel fighting back against barbarians. They make excuses for protestors who support Hamas and continue to publish suspicious death and damage tolls provided to them by the terrorists.

And now they’re goading Iran into joining with Hamas to help destroy Israel.

We live in perilous times. Made more so by irresponsible news outlets like The Times that are cheering for the bad guys.