RantoniFantoni t1_j1aoatk wrote
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It wasn't covered as the top news item and instead was buried under other news due to Saudi PR spending. Many US entities are cautious about writing about Gulf States because through a myriad of companies, they own a lot of US assets. Like hardly anyone knows the Miramax is owned by a Gulf State.
And the media didn't see the hypocrisy between US government prosecuting a Saudi spy and then weeks later let the Saudi's help Elon buy Twitter.
EDIT: Saudi shills are downvoting hard.
Think_Current101 t1_j1aqixb wrote
Not sure this is so much brain dead as... billionaires own all of our major media corporations and they're pretty keen to support foreign investments in the gulf states and, until very recently, Russia.
Blaming this on journalist incompetence and not ownership literally defunding newsrooms and having complete editorial control is a bit off the mark.
RantoniFantoni t1_j1aqypp wrote
I dunno, no journalist bothered to check with Stanford whether Elon actually went there and nobody bothered to look up unsealed court documents from a lawsuit in 2007 in Marin county court where Elon admitted to lying about his credentials.
Until recently, 99% of media coverage of Elon for the last several decades has been glowing. Even though all it took was one person to contact Stanford to verify Elon's attendance and the fake narrative comes crashing down.
EDIT: Thanks Elon stans.
mcs_987654321 t1_j1b6t4f wrote
On what analysis are you basing that 95% figure? Does it include print and tv? US markets only or other set of markets?
Because my personal impression - based on print only (mainly weeklies), US FRA and CA sources - was a solid mix of positive, neutral/bemused, and negative.
The US media environment is still a clusterfuck in the aggregate, but making random declarations like “didn’t cover X” or “only said Y” is no better than the garbage, fact free op eds pushed out in the daily papers.
RantoniFantoni t1_j1bs72h wrote
There no analysis and you cant define what is media and what isn't, or who's a journalist and no isn't. Everything is subjective.
Which is why they make a TV show Succession about the Australian white nationalist that runs the media in Australia, US, and the UK.
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