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> Media outlets put this disclaimer on practically every Tesla article because the media in the US are clearly butthurt that Tesla doesn't need (or want) them.

No, they do it because they need to explain why almost every article on a Tesla issue has zero response from Tesla. Just like the "We reached out to Company but had not received a response before going to press."

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Attempting to contact a media department that does not exist is a sisyphean task.

One wonders why news outlets attempt to contact a media department that does not exist, and that they know does not exist.

Perchance it is so that they can remind the reader that the media department at Tesla does not exist?!?

I'm not sure I agree with your logic. A good journalist does their due diligence, which includes giving the company an opportunity to respond.

Seriously? We all know Tesla doesn't have a media relations department. As such we all know they don't respond to media requests. You still consider it "due diligence" to ask questions of a nonexistent department?

When it suits their agenda, it seems they are quite happy to make statements.

I wonder who issues those statements, absent a media department?

A company can respond without a "media department" or whatever.

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