To what extent do you think the comparison comes from journalists wanting to feel like they are punk? When you're middle aged, middle class, living in wealthy metropolis, you're as near to 'establishment' as you could be. Or, put another way, when you've become what you despised when you were 16. Then, feeling like you're the descendent of zine culture, that you are -- even if only in the quietest of echoes -- sticking it to the man, is probably pretty good for the self esteem, no?