There wasn't really a political angle with Apple, but the coverage of Tesla and SpaceX changed dramatically in most of the media after Musk switched sides during early Covid after a CA legislator told him to get out of CA and said F*k Elon Musk. Since then it's been a constant stream of negative stories and witchhunts that similar companies who do the same things are not subject to.
It's quite obvious that Tesla has huge brand identification and Elon goes way, way out of his way to make things about himself. But are you suggesting Big Vax or a CA assemblyman is controlling the press?
...that and - combined with clickbaity headlines that are, sometimes, not all that newsworthy... ugh... i actually do filter 'Tesla' from my RSS feeds because it is that bad...
They do it because it gets clicks and upvotes on places like HN and Reddit, almost never see a positive or neutral news article about Tesla on there. SpaceX successful launch news on Reddit would have like a 65% downvote ratio to suppress it, and it works.
I guess this headline not saying "Elon Musk's Tesla" or "Elon Musk's SpaceX" in a negative news article is a slight improvement compared to places like CNN.
On the contrary, problems with Teslas are underrepprted in media.
This is despite Tesla beeing involved in a significant number of high profile accidents, many with fatalities [1] [2].
According to NHTSA complaint records it is also one of cars that breaks down most often. Model Y is on the bottom of quality lists in multiple European countries [3].
Which is really unfair. Why does the media continually do that when they don't treat other car companies the same? Especially when it's clear the fault is not the vehicle?
