Since Watergate

 Fifty years of mass media slop -  MAKE IT STOP!

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/legacy-papers-have-been-weird-and-hostile-toward-zohran-mamdani.php

the New York Times have been, in their own way, equally weird and hostile toward Mamdani’s candidacy. This manifested most clearly in the Times editorial board’s non-endorsement in the June Democratic primary. In a piece that dwelled on imaginary threats of disorder and the “chaotic or even menacing” quality of subway rides, the Times said that Mamdani “shows little concern about the disorder of the past decade,” and concluded: “We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots.”