It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
My vote is for: “with tar and feathers”
Another acceptable answer is “with 12,500’ of ocean”.
The fight is stupid and won’t happen. Even if it did happen, Mark and Musk are going to just meet together and engage in some steamy billionaire sex as a token to how many users they have messed with.
Here’s how to cover Musk, you do the same way with Trump - they both hate truths, so keep spreading truths about them.
they both hate truths, so keep spreading truths about them.
Yeah, it’s really working for Donald Trump, he’s not been trying to get into the news or been obnoxious or lied or anything like that since the truth was reported about him ;-)
The real way to cover Elon Musk is the way Trump should be covered but isn’t: just don’t. Don’t at all. If you feel you must, make a point of not covering what he’s done unless he’s 100% truthful and can back up any statements about the future he makes.
Is he lying about minorities on Twitter? Ignore him.
Is he claiming he’s going to release something in six months? Wait six months. You can report on it if it’s true and newsworthy?
In the mean time, why is the media still on Twitter? It’s like journalists covering Trump from cages inside of Trump rallies while he literally calls them terms Goebbels invented like “Lying Media”. Just… don’t turn up, don’t cover the rallies directly (oh sure, report some of the extremist rhetoric, but you don’t have to point a TV camera at him and allow every word he utters to be broadcast live to your audience), etc. And likewise, the media doesn’t need to be on Twitter, it’s not a place to “stay in touch” with the people who read your articles, or the people you report upon, you shouldn’t be there.
Will never happen though. Not my quote but fairly accurate: it’s called “the media” because it’s mediocre.
I actually think Zuck does want to kick Musk’s ass. At the same time I think Mark is going with it just to call Elon’s bluff.
If I were Zuck, I’d be dragging this thing out as long as it takes. See how many excuses Musk can make before he finally admits (he won’t) defeat.
Agreed. Either of the end results is a win for Zuck
It wont happen because Musk would get his ass handed to him every single round. Zuck is fit and has martial arts background
You don’t. Not everything he does and says is newsworthy. Those who are really interested follow him in socials anyway.
Stop reporting on what he wants you to, and instead report what he doesn’t.
Part of the problem is news consumers, that was part of the point of the article. “News” outlets know they can just embed a musk X-eet, write a couple of paragraphs of context (or have AI do it), add the headline “Musk says ____” and boom an easy ten thousand clicks. The author argues these outlets should at least acknowledge prominently in their articles that Musk is a serial liar. He specifically calls out a few outlets over their coverage of Musks unilateral claim that the fight will be streamed on X without ever acknowledging that the claim was likely bullshit without Zucks verification. Just shitty clickbait journalism.
i suggest you treat him like a hostile, manipulative entity, and assume that nothing comes out of that mouth straight… imagine that everything he says is coming from Isengard… it’ll help you…
How about we start right now? Just don’t post anything related to him until it’s actually confirmed to be actually happening and not just him shitposting.
But then how will the media get the ad money generated from clicks?
Yeah if he does something fine. If he says something, that’s worthless.
It’s hard to ignore someone with that much capital…
No, it’s really quite easy.
Shitty journalism and paparazzi make it hard to ignore people whose sole personality trait is “money”.
Then let his actions and not his tweets speak.
I wish we changed to just not cover him at all. It is insanely hard to ignore reading about his inane activities.
he is getting an MRI on Monday of his neck and upper back
I wonder if they were able to find a spine?
😂
Whatever he says is meant to either feed his ego or his coffers. So just assume lie, exaggeration or straight lunacy. I don’t even know why anyone gives him 2m. Whatever he’s ever said about tech, he’s been either somewhat or totally out to lunch.
Block the rich: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/
Is “completely ignore him” and option?
Not if you use Lemmy
On Reddit I’ve found most of the billionaire news in tech subs is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.
I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.
Removed by mod
Tech news with a hefty dose of socioeconomics and politics. I literally get the same thing from my news communities. I just want tech discussion in isolation :'(
Yes. Stop covering them unless they actually do something of importance to the public.
I could not care less about what dumb shit Musk said. To me it has no more weight than what a random person on a bus stop says.
Actually here’s the benchmark, if it’s something that wouldn’t be covered if it was said/done by a random man on the street, then don’t cover it if it’s said/done by musk.
The best way to cover that person would be with six feet of dirt
So it’s not going to be a sports fight, but rather a competition in ‘juggling with lies and false promises’.
Guess who’s the one who has more experience in that field?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Today let’s talk about a wild weekend of backtracking at the company formerly known as Twitter — and how it should inform the way we cover Elon Musk and his frequent promises in the future.
Wrestling promoters have made a lot of money with cowardly heel champions who go to great lengths to avoid having to face their adversaries in combat.
The issue is that these stories are often published without the skepticism that is appropriate to someone who the Securities and Exchange Commission once forced to pay $20 million for saying something that wasn’t true.
Given that Musk won’t even pay his own vendors, it strains credulity that he would file unlimited lawsuits on behalf of anyone fired over what we used to call a tweet.
In February, for example, Musk said the company would begin sharing ad revenue with creators “today” — an announcement that was widely covered.
Last week, for example, the company said it would make good on a promise to let subscribers to X Premium — formerly Twitter Blue — hide their verified checkmarks, which have become a badge of dishonor and mockery among the wider user base.
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