[lastofthemojito]

It's sort of meta to this whole discussion, but it has been interesting to see "journalists" like Fred Lambert and the evolution of their coverage.

Fred was an early Tesla fanboy and investor; he used to gush over Tesla and Elon Musk in his writing at Electrek. It seemed like most of the time when Tesla was mentioned in an article, he also mentioned TSLA, the stock ticker...but he didn't seem to do that as regularly for say, Ford or GM.

It was rumored that Fred had a direct line to Elon and there were also occasionally public Twitter interactions between the two, but Fred gradually become more critical of Elon, especially over FSD stuff. After one critical article, Elon blocked Fred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fredericlambert/status/14176561698297487...

Fred certainly hasn't forgotten about it: https://twitter.com/FredericLambert/status/15186308301381795...

So, Tesla fanboy/blogger comes up with some valid criticism, Elon cuts him off, which in turn probably makes him more critical of Tesla/Elon.