You see the same thing in technical journals. My opinion is that folks who love to write in popular press just tend to be liberals. It’s kind of a genetic thing.
If so, that would explain the article in some engineering trade rag that had me griping on here one time. This guy (and he claimed to be an engineer!!) was lamenting that gearheads would no longer have the freedom to rotate their own tires (don't they do that automatically) because it would goof with the automatic tire air pressure monitoring system, but that of course it was unavoidable because otherwise we'd all be driving around without constant, second by second knowledge of the air pressure in each of our tires! ONOZ! What does this nimrod think we've been doing for a century?? Are there piles of cars every 20 yards or something from improper inflation accidents? Yet he thinks it's just a given that I'll give up a freedom, to avoid messing with a system I never asked for but had to pay for anyway, which may or may not solve a problem that doesn't even appear to exist!