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Honest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press? I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems t
by bsimpson 8mo ago
Honest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press?
I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems to be unmitigatedly terrible.
- cubefox 8mo agoApart from articles by the two space reporters, any news about Musk tend to be biased towards being extremely negative.
- lukeschlather 8mo agoAside from SpaceX, has there been any positive news about Musk lately?
- cubefox 8mo agoWould that excuse being extremely negative about anything that is much less than extremely negative?
- lukeschlather 8mo agoThat is an incredibly tortured sentence. I'm not really interested in parsing tone in an article, that's very subjective. I would be interested if you could demonstrate that Ars was choosing not to write articles about factual things that would portray Musk in a positive light, but you instead basically said "If you ignore all of their positive factual coverage, they don't publish anything positive about Musk at all!"
- cubefox 8mo agoI have said that they have a strong negative bias. Whether the underlying news is positive or negative is completely irrelevant. Relevant is that they make things much more negative (= less positive) than they are.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoBut how does that bias manifest? The only thing you said was that they "ignore neutral or positive stories", and that doesn't seem to be true.
- cubefox 8mo agoNo, I didn't say that at all. I said they are biased, that "they make things much more negative (= less positive) than they are", which is a very different thing. Basically, I'm saying they report x-10 rather than x (that's bias), and you are replying with "so the value of x they report is always negative or 0." No. Wrong.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoOh that was the person earlier in the conversation, okay. So you haven't really been specific at all. I don't know how I could even try to check if a vague claim like that is right or wrong. But since they apparently have positive spacex reporting and only say other things are negative then I'm skeptical of significant bias.
- cubefox 8mo agoAgain, their SpaceX reporting might be "positive", but that doesn't mean it has positive bias. Apart from that, I previously said the non-SpaceX reporters are strongly biased. Anything about the SpaceX reporting isn't relevant for that.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoGitlin, at least, also slants the negative news. The story on sales about Tesla losing market share to VW, but other outlets reported it as VW gaining the top spot.
- lukeschlather 8mo agoThey've always had more coverage of Tesla than other automakers, or at least I've always noticed it more. When Tesla was leading EV sales they dutifully reported that, when they're dropping they report it just as well. If anything slanted coverage would be reporting less on Tesla because they are doing badly, which seems to be what you want.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoNothing Trump or his administration has done warrants good press.
- Marsymars 8mo agohttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-says-it-convinced-uk-to-drop-demand-for-apple-backdoor/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-says... This is the only thing that comes to mind, and Ars covered it.