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It's easy to write off Elon Musk's attacks on Top Gear and the NYT as an overzealous founder defending his company or as a savvy PR strategy against bad press,
by imjk 14y ago
It's easy to write off Elon Musk's attacks on Top Gear and the NYT as an overzealous founder defending his company or as a savvy PR strategy against bad press, but you also have to keep in mind the number of parties that want to to see Tesla fail and the huge amount of influence they have, namely the oil and traditional auto industries. Most "revolutionary" companies come under similar resistance. I'm interested to see what facts Musk lays out.
Also, it's interesting to note the archive of the article's author: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/john_m_broder/index.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b.... Seems like he's a climate/energy specialist rather than an automobile specialist as I had assumed.
- vor_ 14y agoImplying that the the oil and auto industries have gotten to the NYT is a serious accusation. Incidentally, the NYT is sticking by its story and has called Musk's accusations "flatly untrue".
- foobarqux 14y agoSerious but obvious. Media companies make money primarily from large advertisers.
- kylebrown 14y agoTake a brief glance at the author's articles and you will see an extensive list of titles you could describe as anti-oil and pro-environment.
- foobarqux 14y agoMy comment was only into relation to the influence the oil and gas industry has on media companies, not to this particular author or to this specific story.
- vor_ 14y agoWith all due respect, your previous comment was that your accusation against the NYT was serious but obvious.
- foobarqux 14y agoI am not the OP and I didn't make the accusation. But if the accusation is "that the the oil and auto industries have gotten to the NYT" then yes that is both serious and obvious.
- foobarqux 14y agoIn addition I couldn't find any articles in the first 3 pages that you could describe as having an anti-oil/pro-environment stance and certainly none that would raise the ire of big oil. Do you have examples?
- codeulike 14y agoMost modern newspapers wouldn't last 5 minutes without large advertisers. This fact should not be underestimated.