The people working in mainstream media - including the clowns at CNN - in the US are extraordinarily stupid on average. A lot of media outlets ran with the (no

The people working in mainstream media - including the clowns at CNN - in the US are extraordinarily stupid on average. A lot of media outlets ran with the (non-)story that Elon Musk was planning to quit his roles at SpaceX and Tesla to become an influencer. Musk was joking and very obviously so; and yet so many of them ran stories with tags like "it's not certain yet if he's serious." (CNBC for example promptly ran a story with that elaboration) They're really, really, really, stupid. In the US if you can't cut it doing anything else, you become a faux journalist. You write hack regurgitated tweet-based articles for Business Insider or MSNBC or CNN. Which also partially explains the condition of journalism in the US.