Outsourced to Josh Marshall (boldface mine):

This brings me back to a more general point. Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural[ly] hostile to the Democratic Party. This doesn’t mean every journalist individually, of course. But the establishment media generally — the Times, the Post, the Journal, CNN and the business news channels, all of them, and for the reasons we’ve discussed countless times. Democrats should do this not simply because it’s true but because it relieves them of the embarrassment of imagining otherwise, of speaking up for or passively allowing themselves to be identified with institutions in an age of distrust and anti-institutionalism. The status quo, the paradoxical identification, puts Democrats in the position of a jilted spouse, perpetually discomfited, let down. It’s not only damaging directly. It signals an enervating weakness. It’s time to move on. Have some some self-respect. And act accordingly.

I would add that, too often, professional Democrats expect the legacy media to do the work for them. Not only won’t these institutions make the Democratic argument, but they often will seek to knock it down. They are going to have to find a way to cut through this, but it starts with the recognition that they are not your friends or allies, regardless of what individual journalists might think.