It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
www.theverge.com It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
Musk keeps making things up — and the press keeps covering it credibly.
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I actually think Zuck does want to kick Musk's ass. At the same time I think Mark is going with it just to call Elon's bluff.
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If I were Zuck, I'd be dragging this thing out as long as it takes. See how many excuses Musk can make before he finally admits (he won't) defeat.
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Agreed. Either of the end results is a win for Zuck
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It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
My vote is for: "with tar and feathers"
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You don't. Not everything he does and says is newsworthy. Those who are really interested follow him in socials anyway.
Stop reporting on what he wants you to, and instead report what he doesn't.
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Part of the problem is news consumers, that was part of the point of the article. "News" outlets know they can just embed a musk X-eet, write a couple of paragraphs of context (or have AI do it), add the headline "Musk says ____" and boom an easy ten thousand clicks. The author argues these outlets should at least acknowledge prominently in their articles that Musk is a serial liar. He specifically calls out a few outlets over their coverage of Musks unilateral claim that the fight will be streamed on X without ever acknowledging that the claim was likely bullshit without Zucks verification. Just shitty clickbait journalism.
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i suggest you treat him like a hostile, manipulative entity, and assume that nothing comes out of that mouth straight.. imagine that everything he says is coming from Isengard.. it'll help you..
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How about we start right now? Just don't post anything related to him until it's actually confirmed to be actually happening and not just him shitposting.
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Yeah if he does something fine. If he says something, that's worthless.
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But then how will the media get the ad money generated from clicks?
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It's hard to ignore someone with that much capital...
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No, it’s really quite easy.
Shitty journalism and paparazzi make it hard to ignore people whose sole personality trait is “money”.
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Then let his actions and not his tweets speak.
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Block the rich: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/
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The best way to cover that person would be with six feet of dirt
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I wish we changed to just not cover him at all. It is insanely hard to ignore reading about his inane activities.
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Tech news with a hefty dose of socioeconomics and politics. I literally get the same thing from my news communities. I just want tech discussion in isolation :'(
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Whatever he says is meant to either feed his ego or his coffers. So just assume lie, exaggeration or straight lunacy. I don’t even know why anyone gives him 2m. Whatever he’s ever said about tech, he’s been either somewhat or totally out to lunch.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Today let’s talk about a wild weekend of backtracking at the company formerly known as Twitter — and how it should inform the way we cover Elon Musk and his frequent promises in the future.
Wrestling promoters have made a lot of money with cowardly heel champions who go to great lengths to avoid having to face their adversaries in combat.
The issue is that these stories are often published without the skepticism that is appropriate to someone who the Securities and Exchange Commission once forced to pay $20 million for saying something that wasn’t true.
Given that Musk won’t even pay his own vendors, it strains credulity that he would file unlimited lawsuits on behalf of anyone fired over what we used to call a tweet.
In February, for example, Musk said the company would begin sharing ad revenue with creators “today” — an announcement that was widely covered.
Last week, for example, the company said it would make good on a promise to let subscribers to X Premium — formerly Twitter Blue — hide their verified checkmarks, which have become a badge of dishonor and mockery among the wider user base.
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Yes. Stop covering them unless they actually do something of importance to the public.
I could not care less about what dumb shit Musk said. To me it has no more weight than what a random person on a bus stop says.
Actually here's the benchmark, if it's something that wouldn't be covered if it was said/done by a random man on the street, then don't cover it if it's said/done by musk.
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I vote a fight will be faked like the one at the end of Running man. Loads of morons thought that car in "Space" was real. Why not just fake the fight.
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