It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
My vote is for: "with tar and feathers"
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Another acceptable answer is "with 12,500' of ocean".
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.
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.
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..
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.
But then how will the media get the ad money generated from clicks?
Yeah if he does something fine. If he says something, that's worthless.
It's hard to ignore someone with that much capital...
No, it’s really quite easy.
Shitty journalism and paparazzi make it hard to ignore people whose sole personality trait is “money”.
Then let his actions and not his tweets speak.
I wish we changed to just not cover him at all. It is insanely hard to ignore reading about his inane activities.
he is getting an MRI on Monday of his neck and upper back
I wonder if they were able to find a spine?
😂
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.
Is "completely ignore him" and option?
Not if you use Lemmy
On Reddit I’ve found most of the billionaire news in tech subs is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.
I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.
The best way to cover that person would be with six feet of dirt
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.
So it's not going to be a sports fight, but rather a competition in 'juggling with lies and false promises'.
Guess who's the one who has more experience in that field?
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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