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Re:Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in ra... by panick21_ on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:50AM (#35435998)
Its kind of funny to claim 10+ years of fawning press coverage when the reality was that electric cars and by extension Musk go ridiculed and called dangerous and unsafe in the media. The same goes for every little issue with SpaceX.

Coverage of Musk has always been mixed and in main stream media often covered negatively.

Maybe in the more techy press it was mostly positive. But even then, go threw history here on HN. The idea that Tesla was scam and just about to go bankrupt was common wisdom and anybody who disagree got down-voted.

So the idea that positive press coverage is responsible is kind or ridiculous.

Its more like its the endless pro-vs-anti Musk wars that lead to this effect. And that happens in the media as it does on HN.

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Re:Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in ra... by BenSahar on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:50AM (#35440546)
Oh yeah, mainstream media really crapped on him.

That's why he showed up alongside Tony Stark in Iron Man 2 and was treated like a god on an episode of Big Bang Theory.

The media, for the most part, treated him gently until the Thai cave incident when people started to catch onto the idea that this "quirky genius" might be an asshole.

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Re:Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in ra... by panick21_ on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:56AM (#35441660)
You are just doing selection bias.

There was lots of high profile reporting calling Musk dumb for believing in EV and landing rockets. Media constantly using burning Tesla to show how bad EV are. The most important car show in the world, as mainstream as it gets, shit on Tesla hard. Lots of interviews with former CEOs of car companies explaining how dumb Tesla was.

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Re:Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in ra... by the_only_law on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:48AM (#35481516)
> That's why he showed up alongside Tony Stark in Iron Man 2

So did fucking Larry Ellison lol. Wasn’t that movie basically an ad for Oracle.

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