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Comment by awalton | Hacker News Reader

Man, these Ars writers must be making a fortune taking kickbacks from Tesla shortsellers. It seems like they've done nothing but rail against Tesla for a month...

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Ars' coverage of driving automation has been even-handed. It has shown responsible journalistic skepticism towards apparently self-serving claims, and recently, Tesla has been the most active source of such claims. Uber got the same treatment.

And yet: https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/991636171309625344

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/991752018338304000

More like Tesla's shitty marketing finally drew a short straw

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a Tesla short" is the new "Everyone who disagrees with me is a Russian agent"

And frankly, even if Ars was short on Tesla, it still wouldn't invalidate the article. Short sellers provide the market valuable information by deflating hype, and no one has been more hyped than Tesla. Which factual claims in the article do you dispute?

Wow, I suspected you were someone in favor of Tesla and were exaggerating, but I just typed "ars tesla" into Google, clicked the news button, and you're not kidding.

I still think this is a well written article though.

The positive thing for Tesla is that the same guys were writing "apple is dead" in june 1997... Edit : indeed it was Wired. But for me its the same clique.

The same guys, except it's different guys, and even it were literally the same writer, that ad hominem doesn't address the content of this article.

This isn't an ad hominem. I didn't call any name on it. But to be honest if written in Arial 12 and without any clue I'll have a hard time to recognise if an article is from ars, wired, techcrunch ...etc because for me they're all the same. Do you fellow hn reader can distinguish btween all these medias or are they all the same noise on your screen ? ( for me except for people like Sirracusa it's the same, and as times goes on I find that there are more pandas in China that qualified tech journalists)

I mean, Apple was dead in June of 1997. Jobs was rehired shortly after, and the rest is history.

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