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Agree - it's the typical sensationalist click-bait nonsense that passes for journalism these days.

Elon Musk gives lots of clicks, ergo SpaceX (or Tesla) are also lot of clicks, ergo try to link the story to SpaceX.

(Wouldn't it be great if there was some movement to track and rate the quality of individual journalists and their output?)

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It's not really "sensationalist click-bait nonsense" to link this story to SpaceX, considering it's their launch. Might not be their fault, but linking them to the story is hardly a stretch.

Linking spacex to the failure is the “sensationalist clickbait nonsense”

Blaming SpaceX for the failure is. Merely linking them to it isn't - from the sound of things, the failure is literally "it couldn't unlink from SpaceX's stage".

However, it was likely the satellite itself that was responsible for separating from the stage.

So, it seems odd to place the blame on SpaceX given that—according to the only public statements we have—it was a failure of the satellite itself, not a failure of the launch vehicle.

You agree that blaming SpaceX is “sensationalist clickbait nonsense”. Would you also agree that a headline "SpaceX apparently lost the classified ..." is blaming SpaceX? https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/spacex-apparently-lost-the...?

I'm curious where we draw the line on these kinds of things. SpaceX doesn't manufacture every single component, but if the launch had failed because a faulty screw, I don't think we'd be blaming Precision Attachments Corp., but it seems fair to blame NG here.

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