Something missing?

Take a look at this NYT article, "Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic." Oddly, no mention of the words "net neutrality," or the substance of that long-standing (in internet years) debate, which has resulted in some reasonably substantive Congressional hearings and efforts at regulation that would protect access and limit the ability of service providers to discriminate on the basis of content. For the neutrality advocate's perspective, see here. For a more, ahem, neutral overview, see the wiki. It's decent. And while I'm complaining about the Times (well, Brad De Long has cornered the market on complaining about the Washington Post), take a look at this article on a protest directed at LES gentrification: does it seem a wee bit snide to you? ". . . the opening of the East Village summer social season"? Or is the tone actually somewhat affectionate, and I'm reading it wrong?