Who Runs The Country

The parallels with the UK of the 1970s (or now) are not perfect, but a lot of the elite media debates can be best understood (like many things) as simply a question of power. From Yes, Prime Minister, though mentally replace "read by" with "written by" (or "controlled by," really).

The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

The target readers might identify with the perspective of those in control, but...

No perfect correspondences with US media outlets, but you can imagine...