“The BBC doesn’t represent the broad mass of people there, just as the NYTIMES doesn’t represent the broad mass of people here.”

Yes. And you can say the same thing for a lot of countries and their BBCs and NYTs versus the underlying view.

But a strange thing often happens at the superficial level and a few layers below. The same staunch critics of the NYT with regard to their depiction of American politics and the like take as gospel what the NYT says about how America is viewed by the rest of the world or their characterization of the politics of another country. They turn down the cake and eat it, like gluttons, too.