It's not just shorts - We know that the Koch Brothers (as much as a boogyman as they normally are) are behind several PR campaigns, we know that Boeing has fund

It's not just shorts - We know that the Koch Brothers (as much as a boogyman as they normally are) are behind several PR campaigns, we know that Boeing has funded a set of campaigns that attacked Tesla. I remember when Falcon 9H launched, there a coordinate effort to bad-mouth SpaceX, because launching a Rocket with a car was "wasteful".... You kick over a hornets nest, you better have a lot of raid on hand. That said, the NYT has been consistently brutal to Tesla and SpaceX. Part of it is that they leave themselves open. They are being candidly honest and aggressive, and don't always make their goals.. But they shoot for the moon. If they miss, at least they make orbit, as opposed to plummeting back down to the ground.