Tech Media Now Hates Tesla And Elon Musk

All of a sudden, Twitter is out, Mastodon is in, stories Engadget. “[Mastodon] has turn into “one of many high platforms of alternative for a few of Twitter’s most influential — and most adopted — customers,” Engadget stories.

Not all of Engadget readers agree, as many within the feedback part made clear.

One commenter, reflecting different feedback, notes that for years Engadget “could not get sufficient” optimistic Musk information, citing a continuing movement of upbeat information about Tesla, SpaceX, flamethrowers, and Tesla photo voltaic roofs.

Now, the reader says, articles are weighted towards “how terrible Twitter is” and criticism of Musk’s initiatives.

And, to not be outdone, a Cnet story is especially harsh in attacking Musk. The irony appears to be misplaced on the author who, to assault Musk, repeats the vitriol and among the hyperbole typically discovered on left-leaning Twitter feeds.

Los Angeles Instances editorial whacks Musk and Tesla

And within the mainstream media it’s fairly simple lately to seek out editorials — or outright straight information tales — that intentionally hunt down feedback from Tesla homeowners who now detest Musk.

A Los Angeles Instances editorial pulls no punches: Op-Ed: I bought a Tesla to help the environment. Now, I’m embarrassed to drive it

In brief, it’s shameful to personal a Tesla as a result of Elon Musk “has apparently swung to the far proper,” John Blumenthal writes within the LA Instances.

“Due to the current revelation of Elon Musk’s political beliefs — all of which I abhor — I’m beginning to fear about what kind of political assertion the automobile is making. Will folks see me as a logo of right-wing environmentalism, a dwelling oxymoron?” — Blumenthal writes.

Once more, various LA Instances readers disagree.

Regardless of being a pacesetter in inexperienced power and electrical vehicles (which are a magnet for left-leaning “inexperienced” automobile consumers), Tesla has fallen out of favor as a result of “Musk has mentioned issues that do not fall in step with the ideology of Democrats,” writes one commenter.

In different phrases, for some tech journalists, it’s not as a lot in regards to the automobile as it’s about politics (and what mates might imagine).

It’s not simply the the inventory value

The current inventory market meltdown has hit lots of the high tech corporations onerous, not simply Tesla. That features American EV makers resembling Rivian and Lucid.

So, that’s not a believable cause to immediately go unfavorable on Tesla.

Criticism of Twitter is warranted however lots of the harshest articles concentrate on Musk’s purported lurch to the fitting.

Tesla will proceed to be in style (it’s the opposite aspect that wants convincing)

Tech and mainstream media criticism of Musk and Tesla may have little impact on the car-buying American public.

The place I dwell in Los Angeles, a Tesla has turn into a standing image. 4 of my fast neighbors personal a Tesla and that quantity has elevated previously 3 months to roughly a dozen if I embrace not-immediate neighbors.

A number of Musk-loathing tech journalists received’t have an effect on the deep-rooted consumerism of People. If a automobile purchaser opts for a Chevy Bolt as an alternative of a Tesla, value would be the deciding issue not politics.

Sarcastically, the one massive section of American automobile consumers who received’t purchase a Tesla — or an electrical automobile — for political causes are conservatives, who’ve a longstanding perception that hybrids (assume: Prius) and EVs like Tesla are for tree-hugging lefties.

So, in impact, tech journalists are preaching to the choir however not the choir they’d essentially like to succeed in.