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I'm not sure how you can like this interview. It's extremely combative and the questions from the interviewer seem childish like she is deliberately not listening to Elon's answers. I'm no Elon fan but this is impossible to listen to.

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Kara Swisher is like that sometimes, and I don't like it too. On Steve Jobs last interview to her and Mossberg, Mossberg was trying to capture how Steve thinks, but Kara was only interested in the current event of apple dropping google on the maps app.

Sometimes? She is always like that. Once she has someone in her grip, she won't let go, ever. I don't understand how she can be so one-sided as a journalist, if we can even call what she does journalism.

A few years ago she decided she'd get Uber down. Oh boy. Every single thing she was writing was worst than a People magazine article about the Kardashians. 0 objectivity. Straight up fake news, etc.

>0 objectivity. Straight up fake news

Please post a link to an article written by Swisher on Uber that had absolutely "zero objectivity".

This trend of calling articles you disagree with or mediocre journalism "fake news" is frightening.

I really liked how Musk handled himself. Combative and stern at times, especially when Kara Swisher said she doesn’t own an electric car :). Overall not a great interview. She kept harping on Model 3 production. I hate it when interviewers try to dissect the past. It’s more exciting to talk about the future, get Musk thinking.. but no let’s just dig about the past.

Or ask questions that have already been asked asked multiple times in other interviews. Even worse, asking questions that Musk has addressed in his Public Releases. You are interviewing one of the top CEO's of the current times who has little time as it, please stop having him repeat himself. I get that maybe your audience hasn't watched hours of his interviews/public releases but it still irks me so much

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