"Low-grade ethics violation" is appropriate only if you think the journalist's mandate was to brown-nose. "Musk hasn't painted Broder as evil." Musk wrote (so

"Low-grade ethics violation" is appropriate only if you think the journalist's mandate was to brown-nose. "Musk hasn't painted Broder as evil." Musk wrote (source: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive): In Mr. Broder’s case, he simply did not accurately capture what happened and worked very hard to force our car to stop running. I'm sorry, but that's absolutely painting Broder as Evil. I'm going to repeat the claim, because for some reason you don't see this as nefarious: worked very hard to force our car to stop running. "If Musk hadn't called bullshit when he saw it, it would have been open season on Tesla by every copycat hack trying to get a piece of the action." Instead, it was open season to attack NYT. "You can be sure that journalists covering Tesla for publications of record will be quite careful and accurate with their facts, good and bad, from now on. I don't think Musk can ask for more than that." What Musk is asking for is the media to be his lapdog. And that's fine. But don't delude yourself into thinking he's asking for objectivity. You are belying your own inability to think.