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This is interesting. Lot of people complain when Tesla bad news are reported. The refrain being - this is clickbait and will media make a news out of this if it

This is interesting. Lot of people complain when Tesla bad news are reported. The refrain being - this is clickbait and will media make a news out of this if it was another company or ICE car. But in this thread I see no complains about why this also not clickbait. How often do we see another companies car launches - electric, ICE or otherwise getting so much attention on HN? So, for Tesla fans I can only say this - you will live the sword you die by the sword. Tesla gets coverage irrespective of bad, good or neutral. So, next time there is a negative news let's try and have a healthy debate about Tesla issue rather than about "biased media".

eganist 8y ago
Hundreds of thousands of reservations where individual thousand dollar deposits were made are now able to be configured and redeemed, impacting many people with their own liquidity at stake. The news value comes from the scope of impact and the amount of change from the original state (hundreds of thousands of reservations effectively unable to move forward and commit delivery). Even if it's just basic reporting, the number of people with personally significant financial positions at stake justifies reporting. $1,000 might be nothing to you or me, but undoubtedly to many reservation holders considering the pricing of the car, $1,000 is a sum they had to actually debate spending, so there's a significant public interest. This is newsworthy. And yes, I'm one of the aforementioned complainers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409396). I don't own a Tesla nor do I have any interest—or any interest—in the company.
aae42 8y ago
But do you see how all of the comments spin this to be bad news? "Tesla needs money, that's why they're opening the floodgates, they're hemorrhaging money!"
- danso 8y ago
  Are you arguing that Tesla is not losing money? Just a couple weeks ago they had a 9% workforce reduction to “reduce costs and become profitable”. The company has only had 2 profitable quarters in its history, and had record losses in its most recent quarter.
  - HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
    According to Musk's tweets( which is arguably a weak measure) Tesla is more or less right on the verge of being cash flow positive and won't need more money raised. Don't discount the billions in shorts that have a lot of power to bias the public.
jmull 8y ago
Aren't you are cranking up the debate on biased media in this thread?

eganist 8y ago

Hundreds of thousands of reservations where individual thousand dollar deposits were made are now able to be configured and redeemed, impacting many people with their own liquidity at stake. The news value comes from the scope of impact and the amount of change from the original state (hundreds of thousands of reservations effectively unable to move forward and commit delivery). Even if it's just basic reporting, the number of people with personally significant financial positions at stake justifies reporting. $1,000 might be nothing to you or me, but undoubtedly to many reservation holders considering the pricing of the car, $1,000 is a sum they had to actually debate spending, so there's a significant public interest. This is newsworthy. And yes, I'm one of the aforementioned complainers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409396). I don't own a Tesla nor do I have any interest—or any interest—in the company.

aae42 8y ago

But do you see how all of the comments spin this to be bad news? "Tesla needs money, that's why they're opening the floodgates, they're hemorrhaging money!"

danso 8y ago
Are you arguing that Tesla is not losing money? Just a couple weeks ago they had a 9% workforce reduction to “reduce costs and become profitable”. The company has only had 2 profitable quarters in its history, and had record losses in its most recent quarter.
- HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
  According to Musk's tweets( which is arguably a weak measure) Tesla is more or less right on the verge of being cash flow positive and won't need more money raised. Don't discount the billions in shorts that have a lot of power to bias the public.

jmull 8y ago

Aren't you are cranking up the debate on biased media in this thread?