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I was surprised at the number of people casually accusing Broder of a conspiracy. Usually, it's the big company representative who gets the vitriol and the jour
by vor_ 14y ago
I was surprised at the number of people casually accusing Broder of a conspiracy. Usually, it's the big company representative who gets the vitriol and the journalist is the underdog good guy, but for some reason, much of the reaction was opposite from the expected.
- niggler 14y agoElon Musk is idolized by many people here, to a great extent because of Tesla, and when they see Musk make accusations they fall in line. It's more Musk-worshipping than anti-NYT sentiment.
- ubernostrum 14y agoIt was completely expected. Elon Musk is basically a cult figure for a lot of wannabe "entrepreneurs", so criticism of him or his company is taken very personally and responded to very harshly. (lest you doubt this, go dig up some of the Boeing 787 threads and see what people were saying about him there -- the level of outright worship of him in the HN comments was more than a little bit scary)
- homosaur 14y agoThat's because Elon Musk is some sort of superhero genius to the many of the types that lurk here. The Jason Calicanises of the world have all but declared this guy automobile Jesus.
- Metapony 14y agoI don't buy into the Musk mythos. I do believe he can afford a large media team to blanket messageboards and sway opinion.
- gabipurcaru 14y agoI'm not surprised. Don't know if this happens on a global scale, but here in Romania there's a trend of journalists and other media people starting to abuse their power like Broder (supposedly?) did, so for me (not sure about others), a journalist having a strong opinion quickly triggers a bullshit bell.