the stunning unity of the papers in their opposition to the possibility that Mamdani may represent something positive is indicative of what all these publications have in common. More than any other media outlet, great old papers like these represent the establishment. Being a part of the political, social, and economic power structure defined the nature of successful big-city papers and their owners for generations. Their commitment to keep change modest, to keep reform within reason, to keep the basic arrangement of things steady is far more fundamental to these publications’ worldview than their relative spot on the right-to-modestly-liberal spectrum. Before Zohran Mamdani, the only two political figures in recent decades who received the same level of common vitriol from this slice of the pundit world were Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The only thing that unites those three is that all of them sought, to varying degrees, to upend the establishment. That inclination—disrespectful as it is to the social ladder that members of these media institutions have climbed—will always rub such newspapers the wrong way. . . "
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judy-and-the-little-tubes_b_5117
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