I think you're giving the media way too much credit here. Musk does a pretty great job of sidestepping his PR people to say insane, hateful, inflammatory, or just plain stupid shit. My thoughts on him come from years of hearing him tell us who he really is on a daily basis, and I'd be irritated if someone mistakenly placed responsibility for my thoughts on Musk to the media.

"legacy media" "hit pieces"

Sir, you just have to read Elon's Musks twitter account on his "X" platform which he owns. You don't need third parties to tell you what is wrong with him.

> Did the NYT not do the most basic research on Elon, which would have shown his consistent history of this kind of behavior they are now criticizing him for.

Twitter wasn't as big back then as it is now. Earlier all his thoughts were kept mostly to himself and social media wasn't as big. Twitter amplifies his inner thoughts. People don't seem to like it.

"pedo guy" convinced me to behave that way, and that wasn't the legacy media's fault.

The most significant shift in my opinion of him happened as a result of my reading of his authorized biography (from Isaacson). I don't read much "legacy media".

> Do you think there is any chance that the legacy media has convinced you to behave this way?

Bro, you can see the tweets yourself. Nobody is putting words into this guy's mouth. When people show you who they are, believe them.

    Do you think there is any chance that the legacy 
    media has convinced you to behave this way?

If you want to suggest there's a conspiracy involving the mainstream media's coverage of Musk, you'd need to point out some comparable CEOs who behaved similarly and were ignored or covered differently.

I don't think you can, because Musk is so singular. He runs multiple cutting-edge companies and has behaved very publicly in some very outlandish ways. Publicly calling people pedos, praising the alt-right, publicly smoking weed, a compelling list of actual achievements combined with an equally large list of conspicuous vaporware promises. There's nobody quite like him. Thus the coverage.

    What happened to liberals caring about climate change? 

I do not think "caring about climate change" entails ignoring some fairly spectacular public behavior from a guy making electric cars.

His tweets agreeing with Nazis convinced me.

Did the NYT not do the most basic research on Elon, which would have shown his consistent history of this kind of behavior they are now criticizing him for.

Ok but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?