Posted on 02/08/2022 6:32:18 PM PST by blam
Few people have received the kind of love-hate treatment from the media that Elon Musk has. Initially lionized for his role in building Tesla into the world’s preeminent manufacturer of electric cars, Musk saw his public image darken as the media fixated on his increasingly contrarian and – dare we say it – conservative viewpoint on politics, the climate and society.
As a result, Musk took to Twitter Tuesday morning in Asia to criticize the traditional media for pumping out a “relentless hate-stream” of bad news. Musk lamented that it’s “so hard to find out what’s going on in the world without being bombarded with news that makes one sad & angry!”
Furthermore, Musk lashed out at the media for “focusing relentlessly” on bad news, claiming that it doesn’t give an accurate representation of reality. In a reply to another user, the billionaire said “careless negativity (destruction) is much harder than thoughtful positivity (creation).”
Why is the “traditional” media such a relentless hatestream? Real question.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2022
Most news outlets attempt to answer the question: “What are the worst things happening on Earth today?”
It’s a big planet! Obviously, some bad things are happening somewhere at any given time, but focusing relentlessly on those does not give an accurate picture of reality.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2022
Musk’s tweets arrived just a few hours after Brett Winton, director of research at Ark Investment Management (a major Tesla bull that has seen the value of its funds collapse in recent months), tweeted “it is deeply weird that the Internet tried to bully, threaten, extort and browbeat us into giving up on Tesla.”
reflecting on it it is deeply weird that the internet tried to bully, threaten, extort and browbeat us into giving up on Tesla https://t.co/V8gI37Gpbg
— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) February 7, 2022
Musk replied that “the insane tweet FUD campaign & press hatestream of 2017-2019 is still easily found.”
It was so crazy! The insane tweet FUD campaign & press hatestream of 2017-2019 is still easily found.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2022
Musk’s anti-media tweets arrived at a particularly difficult time for Tesla: the media just reported that the SEC had sent Tesla and Musk another subpoena back in November over Musk’s now-infamous “funding secured” tweet from August 2018.
The Tesla CEO also sent another one of his infamous dogecoin-pumping tweets…
So … it’s finally come to this … pic.twitter.com/Gf0Rg2QOaF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2021
…but before ending his tirade, he apparently signed off with a Monty Python reference.
🎶Always look on the bright side of life🎶
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2022
The subtext is obvious: perhaps instead of being so morbid all the time, the press should try writing about something positive.
Agree!
I’m a John Locke liberal and a supporter of Romans 13 governance.
What we have today is Revelations 13 governance.
In the 1960s, I opposed the oppressive Establishment. I was called a liberal.
Today, I oppose the oppressive Establishment, and I am called a conservative.
That’s because the Establishment has lurched so far left, that even John Locke looks ultra conservative.
Musk is getting the Jack Ma treatment.
Bet on it.
Wait, i thought reality was a simulation? :)
Thank goodness we are a republic! :) Rule of law....or used to be.
Elon, the solution is simple: do what Bezos did and use a few of your billions to buy up a failing national newspaper and turn it into your personal mouthpiece ... while you’re at it, see if you can cut a deal with the new WarnerMediaDiscovery corporation and buy the failing CNN, and then you’ll have your own personal news channel too!
“Musk just might turn out to be the next Trump, the party-free Tom Bombadil of Middle Earth.”
Musk can’t be president since he’s not a natural born citizen of the US. But honestly, why would he want to even if he could? Look how they treated Trump.
He’ll probably be the first president of Mars, but that will be a very small colony when they form their first government.
Elon Musk is a liberal who swallowed the red pill. The defining moment for him was the lockdown in California, I bet. That’s all right, we welcome converts to your side. Maybe he’ll eventually have Tesla produce an ICE vehicle ;)
The Hatestream Media. I kind of like that.
Hatestream Media. Perfect.
You have to understand Elon…. Misery loves company.
An ice vehicle for tesla would not be in the cards. Hydrogen might be a possibility if the economics of hydrogen would work.
That might happen if there were an economic way to convert hydrogen to something easily transportable. Something that then can be coverted back to hydrogen economically.
The last big candidate that I’ve heard of for that hydrogen transport fuel is ammonia.
Nattering nabobs of negativity
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