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by waterlesscloud 4864 days ago
Musk pretty seriously mischaracterizes the NYT Public Editor's piece, but I don't see any straight-out misquotes. Can you point them out?
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Musk said that Sullivan said,

'John Broder [...] made “few conclusions that are unassailable.”'

While, yes, the bit in quotation did appear in the piece, it was in the following:

"In the matter of the Tesla Model S and its now infamous test drive, there is still plenty to argue about and few conclusions that are unassailable."

I would deem that a "misquote", though if you insist it's a serious mischaracterization of the context of a quote or something, I'm not sure I'll argue too strenuously over the semantics.