This kind of reasoning is how conspiracy theorists are born. I've only looked for Toyota, but 7 out of 10 headlines at CNBC were equally critical of Toyota ("To

This kind of reasoning is how conspiracy theorists are born. I've only looked for Toyota, but 7 out of 10 headlines at CNBC were equally critical of Toyota ("Toyota recalls", "Toyota struggles", ...). Here's an alternative theory: Perhaps you didn't pay much attention at how media works before, but now have a topic of interest with which you associate positive emotions (Tesla), and therefore suddenly the criticism becomes obvious to you - but only for this very topic. Your subconsciousness therefore has to alter it's previous mental model of the inner working of the media. But instead of throwing out the whole notion of the media being unbiased or neutral, your subconsciousness now just appends the new fact to the existing model: All media is fair and neutral, but not regarding Tesla. Kind of like a modified Gel-Mann amnesia effect. But actual conscious investigation would produce more evidence that the media is always more critical. After all, no news site ever had headlines like "Today, again, thousends of airplanes took of and landed without a single casuality." Just to be sure: This is not meant to sound condescending. It's just human. But the web makes it all too easy to find support for practically every idea ever, whether right or wrong. Which puts even more burden on us individually to observe our own internal heuristics.