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Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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28 pointsopenmosix19 comments

Isn't it obvious to everyone at this point that the ex-gawker media empire has it out to get Musk?

Constant hit-piece after hit-piece.

They've burned any facade of objectivity, with the tone and repetitiveness of their reporting.

They've been like that for years. I had to stop reading Gizmodo because it turned from actual news about tech to whatever the narcissistic staff felt like.

https://gizmodo.com/runaway-peacock-ditches-his-human-family...

https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-long-itd-take-you-to-poop-a-le...

How are posts like that at all relevant? I mean I'd rather read The Verge than what these people are putting out. The bias that Gawker had is that of a crazy person. They always told us that they were there for the people delivering hard evidence, but meanwhile give a damn about a person's rights to privacy, AND THEN CELEBRATED THAT FACT.

Check out Gawker's defunct site as it stands now. It's a dumpster fire that points fingers at everyone but themselves.

The lego pooping story you mentioned did make it to the front page of HN, so it’s what people want to see, I guess...

This. The explanations for journalistic practices are increasingly financial/economic.

this anecdote is being retold by pretty much every western journalism outlet with just about the same details; not just Gawker associated ones.

( I agree that Gawker media outlets are usually terrible )

Journalists don't exist to represent the interests of maverick billionaires. That's what PR firms are for. Tesla's was very successful for a long time. Now that's changing. This is a good and natural function of a working democracy.

This article isn't journalism...it's an opinion piece.

This is a report by a recurring contributor to the publication which contextualises a news peg with other events relevant to the peg. Whatever your semantic disagreements with the contemporary tone of web-based reporting, this is textbook journalism.

> this is textbook journalism

The line between editorial and news has become so blurred I'm afraid you're right.

No, this is an opinion piece and its first paragraph literally begins with criticism of the company. It also uses the phrase "everyone was right all along". First of all, who is 'everyone' and since when has everyone agreed on anything? This is far from journalism...this is a thinly veiled opinion piece and a poorly written one at that.

This is a terrible article and should be downvoted to death. Maybe Jalopnik should have accompanied their thoughts about Musk's comment with, I don't know, some cash flow analysis from their income statement ? And pointed to what was wrong and how perilous his statement was ? You know those things are all publicly available. May be, they can actually look at a cashburn and capex numbers and point to errors ? But that will require some journalistic work. So much better to run a hit piece. And may be they should also actually publish the number of Model 3s sold in the last quarter to add some context as well.

"No one...should put this many hours into work...this is not good. People should not work this hard. They should not do this. This is very painful... [Interviewer: Painful in what sense?] ...It hurts my brain and my heart."

Not gonna lie, that kinda took me aback.

> People should not work this hard.

True. It is painful to think about people being brought into this world, only to spend their lives worrying about money (or the basic survival in general). As an idea, or a moral maxim, working hard is inherently bad. Except when one enjoys it. But even then they should restrain themselves - just to see if there may be other good things in life.

I don't think Musk worries about money. He seems to be driven by other motives entirely. If it were all about money I suppose he would have retired after selling PayPal.

You're probably correct.

But the problem with money is that once you have some; you want more.

Thank god at-least he realized it. Otherwise he was flying to the mars!

web page has been dead for me for about 20 minutes (since I saw this link) - does anyone have cached version available? Google gave me a 404 on their cache....

(1555-1615 EST -- 2018-11-26)

http://archive.is/iKoKE

Thank you! it turns out that fqdn is blocked by pi-hole. oops....

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