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Elon Musk, the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley

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22 pointspaulashbourne12 comments

In case anyone might be out of the loop, this is likely a response to a series of tweets criticizing the media that Musk made recently.

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

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.

It's not an article, it's a rant. Probably not worth the time reading it.

The article (or rant, if you wish) sounds pretty accurate to me.

No it has no basis in reality. It's a figment of the writer's imagination (and yours too if you believe it).

I don’t see that there’s newsworthy in this. It’s an opinionated rant piece, and severely skewed.

Wow... Clickbait from The New York Times?

>He suckers people to fork over cash in exchange for promises he hasn’t kept

I can vouch for that statement.

What promise did he not keep to you?

previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17159962

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It's not very clear, but the other post has only 4 upvotes and 1 comment, so it doesn't count as "significant attention".

It's an opinion piece, with a clickbaity title.

To be fair, Donald Trump was not a self made man. Elon Musk is.

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