Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

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3 points·rpeden··7 comments

This is an announcement of an episode, which seems close to an an annoucement of an announcement: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410214>

I'm thinking that's somewhat off-topic, as there's just a teaser 'graph (though not so short as to give some cause to complain) and a < 2m trailer.

Post the episode itself once it's up and we can talk. Hopefully substantively.

That's fair! I mostly posted it because this was the first I'd heard if it and I mostly wanted to hear HN's thoughts about whether this is noteworthy enough for a Frontline documentary.

But I grew up watching Frontline and Nova and other PBS shows with my grandfather, so I think they might just occupy a different place in my mind than they do for others.

Definitely. The episode looks interesting, and the heads-up is useful.

But the announcement itself isn't food for "intellectual curiosity", HN's objective:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>

Factual error in the first sentence. PBS refers to Musk as the company's 'sole proprietor,' when in reality Dorsey and others continue to own part of the company.

Are journalists just phoning it in at this point?

You're right, that's a pretty glaring error. In fairness to the journalists, I doubt any of them are writing the website copy.

You are technically correct

Kinda hilarious it's right above a link to their "Journalistic Standards". And that "T" refers to the Trust Project which is funded by the the same consortium of billionaires concerned with gatekeeping information.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/editorial-standa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trust_Project

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