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> Why does it need to exaggerate the bad and gloss over the good?

Car enthusiasts & journalists have a storied history of being biased against electric and/or self-driving vehicles.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/24/jeremy-clarkso...

https://www.tesla.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

They have a far, far more storied history of being positive. Which is why Tesla, quite rightly, says in its 10Qs that it doesn’t need to pay for advertising because it expects to generate positive media coverage.

Jeremy Clarkson really really doesn’t represent the world of “car enthusiasts” or journalists in general. He’s an entertainer, part of a latter day Three Stooges and tarring an entire branch of journalism with his brush is like saying that because Sean Hannity is a fuckwit, so was Walter Cronkite.

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