why print media is dead...

[AkatomboRR]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
NY Times trash talking new technology..
This is what happens when print media tries to review new technology that they don't understand.
Please please please when you're copying from the brochure for the car review, make sure you get the info right. The car does not navigate via Google Maps.
If you can't get that right, how the fuck are you suppose to convince people that you're lying about the range of the car? :rofl

 

[xgambit]

looks like google maps to me

 

[wannabe]

I read the article. I didn't see anything wrong with it.

 

[Johndicezx9]

The price of early adopting, I guess...

Every writer that complains like this seems to follow the same pattern; get the car, go on a road trip to test the distance, rather than use it in day to day driving, commuting, running errands on the weekend, or other normal day to day driving functions.

Not gonna say he's not making points, but it seems like he'd using a tool for the wrong job.

 

[Bay Arean]

Print media isn't dead. It's just going to get more expensive.

And the thing is, lazy reporting is a reflection of the slacker society we live in. I see it everywhere, print, broadcast and net media as well.

And, compared to the Internet, where anybody can say anything without censure, the NYTimes is still probably a bit better than a lot of what you'd find in the non-print media.

We're more vulnerable than ever to quick stories that turn out to be untrue, hence, all the fact-checking sites and such.

That said, I pretty much hate the NYTimes for their arrogance and extreme partisanship. They, like Time mag, have this annoying tendency to want to "manage" the news we are exposed to. And their mechanism for self-checking was really exposed by the Jayson Blair incident.

I work for a private newspaper and even our tiny pubiication has editors meetings, where the boss decides what will be covered, the approach etc. I think the editorial board meetings at the Times would be something to witness. But it would be hard not to be screaming at 'em the whole time.

 

[louemc]

^^^ Then You know how the costs of printing are not in the control of businesses that print. The cost of the printing press, people that have the skills to maintain the presses, and the people that have the skills to do the printing, are something of a dying breed.

 

[Horse]

What a piece of crap!

Getting stuck out in the cold is the worst! Batteries always lose a bunch of capacity when cold. How embarrassing for Tesla, overestimating range. Before they handed one to media, they should of tested it out better themselves.

This article will cost them a lot of sales. It will be an expensive mistake.

 

[Yakoo752]

If you can't get that right, how the fuck are you suppose to convince people that you're lying about the range of the car? :rofl

And apparently all the Model-S' that are given out to reviews have data logging turned on. So Musk is calling BS on the story saying he has the data to prove the reporter is lying.

 

[vato_loco]

That said, I pretty much hate the NYTimes for their arrogance and extreme partisanship. They, like Time mag, have this annoying tendency to want to "manage" the news we are exposed to. And their mechanism for self-checking was really exposed by the Jayson Blair incident.

Back in 2004, before the elections, the editors at the NYT killed a story on the Bush torture memo because it wasn't newsworthy.

Ah, the Jayson Blair affair. Why does that whole incident, with its affirmative action subtext, remind me of President Obama and his putative leadership qualities?

 

[wazzuFreddo]

And apparently all the Model-S' that are given out to reviews have data logging turned on. So Musk is calling BS on the story saying he has the data to prove the reporter is lying.

Apparently the guy didn't charge the car overnight :laughing

 

[Bay Arean]

Back in 2004, before the elections, the editors at the NYT killed a story on the Bush torture memo because it wasn't newsworthy.

Ah, the Jayson Blair affair. Why does that whole incident, with its affirmative action subtext, remind me of President Obama and his putative leadership qualities?

I don't know about the Obama comparison, hadn't thought about it.

But they ran 26 straight days of front page stories on Abu Ghraib as I recall. Not sure how many times the Benghazi affair got front page coverage. There's something to compare...but then, "what difference does it make?!?!?!?!?!"

 

[wannabe]

And apparently all the Model-S' that are given out to reviews have data logging turned on. So Musk is calling BS on the story saying he has the data to prove the reporter is lying.

I hate pasting a link to Fox News, but I had to look up what you were talking about:

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/02/12/tesla-ceo-accuses-new-york-times-printing-fake-car-review/


edit: Another article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...7c1ff2-7512-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html

But, in this case, they also mention at the end that Tesla has a habit of going after everyone who gives them a negative review. I do recall seeing that Top Gear episode. I didn't know that Tesla took them to court over it.

 

[Johndicezx9]

Seems like the NYT writer may be losing some cred, first the data downloaded from the car didn't supoort his actual sequence of events, and now this:

http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/1...del-s-can-make-infamous-road-trip-more-attem/

 

[boney]

I figure anyone who drives an electric car away from the charging station when the car is telling him it won't get to then nest stop is an idiot.