Musk is not entirely wrong, but things are heated ATM and he's not the best messenger perhaps at this time.
The NY times article is incredibly focused on pushing a narrative; no mention of space-x or the purchasing of solar city ahead of CAs recent roof top solar mandate..
It's an opinion piece, I get that. But serious news organizations can't keep pulling the opinion card to excuse away posting purposefully inflammatory, divisive, and dishonest "journalism" if they want to be taken seriously. It's really sad to me that the NYT would be party to such hit pieces, but this is 2018 I suppose.
P.S. I vouched this thread as I believe HN can have an honest, civil discussion about both Elon Musk's business shortcomings and the medias credibility issues.
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[ 7.3 ms ] story [ 505 ms ] threadI can vouch for that statement.
> Are reposts ok?
> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
It's not very clear, but the other post has only 4 upvotes and 1 comment, so it doesn't count as "significant attention".
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999355619390865408
He even addressed this style of response directly in one tweet.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999357298861486080
And finally he suggested and then ran a twitter poll on the idea of creating a media credibility monitoring website.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999374720368689153
The NY times article is incredibly focused on pushing a narrative; no mention of space-x or the purchasing of solar city ahead of CAs recent roof top solar mandate..
It's an opinion piece, I get that. But serious news organizations can't keep pulling the opinion card to excuse away posting purposefully inflammatory, divisive, and dishonest "journalism" if they want to be taken seriously. It's really sad to me that the NYT would be party to such hit pieces, but this is 2018 I suppose.
P.S. I vouched this thread as I believe HN can have an honest, civil discussion about both Elon Musk's business shortcomings and the medias credibility issues.
To be fair, Donald Trump was not a self made man. Elon Musk is.