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The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
"CEO said a thing!" journalism
Come to think of it, that really applies to all "top" CEOs. And the whole US admin. And they all tend to be active on antisocial media, so it's easy to quote them.
And they're all trying to peddle their bullshit, regardless of facts or truth. Problem is, for many people it seems to work.
As some people who need to label everything say: we live in a post truth society.
I agree: mainstream journalism has failed us.
We're still being inundated with lazy pseudo-journalistic infotainment that pretends Musk is hard at work in his shed behind the house, clad in overalls as he dutifully ponders the convoluted assembly of rocket assemblages beyond mortal ken.
It's utterly pathological, and they've been doing it for so long it's clearly an active, conscious choice to platform falsehoods.
Indeed. Who can read a thing like this and believe it, considering his very public track record:
