Thank you for making this distinction - it's a very useful one to have that I did not previously. From the other nymag.com submissions on HN, and a look at the

Thank you for making this distinction - it's a very useful one to have that I did not previously. From the other nymag.com submissions on HN, and a look at their frontpage, and my past experiences with their articles, it seems like NYMag is an Activist news outlet, so this is not very surprising, if rather disappointing.