I'm curious as to whether Eric Berger (the reporter who wrote this piece) saw the op-ed on the Houston Chronicle first (he worked for them before Ars) and smell

I'm curious as to whether Eric Berger (the reporter who wrote this piece) saw the op-ed on the Houston Chronicle first (he worked for them before Ars) and smelled something fishy. The fact that the Chron used a screencap of Musk smoking that blunt to go along with the anti-SpaceX op-ed is unbelievable. Letting a PR firm throw mud at a client's competitor via a thinly-veiled op-ed is one thing, but helping them by taking part in the propaganda machine to that extent is something else entirely.