CityLab is a popular publication on HN, with over 1400 submissions and usually over a hundred comments on each. It's normal that people care more than about other companies.
I get the feeling I could make some kind of comment here about an aristocracy of labour, especially given that it's motherjones
The means of mass communication is the new means of mass production.
Is it time to seize it?
well idunno, last time around the people who seized it did a pretty piss-poor job afterwards. mostly they just ran it into the ground, in fact. there's a lesson to be learnt there.