Here is a supposedly auto-focused website, devoted ostensibly to all things auto related and there hasn't been a peep about the Automobile Magazine, Yahoo! Auto, or even Motor Trend CAR OF THE FRICKIN' YEAR! WOW!
The Truth About Cars as well, hasn't seemed to comment at all on these recent developments, even though they were so keen on independent range verification, and then Motor Trend verified it, and then, nothing.
It's hard to admit when you are wrong. It's really hard to admit when you are so far off the mark you look foolish. I doubt they'll write anything about the Model S until there is a sliver of negative news.
Difficult or not, journalistic ethics... heck, general ethics... is far more valuable than being "right". You'd think they'd get that and take it as an opportunity.
By remaining silent Jalopnik and The Truth about Cars merely reenforce their own irrelevance. Do you think that Chris Paine will have them as cameos in his next movie, Triumph of the Electric Car? :wink: Larry
Jalopnik is frat-boy journalism. They bombastically denigrate things they don't like and over-hype the things they do (most of these are idiotic). It's not journalism, it's theater for like-minded folks. Like Fox News but for cars.
Jalopnik doesn't exactly hold the MT award in the highest regard: MotorTrend's 2012 Car of the Year is an epic win for mediocrity
Try to concede that Jalopnik/gawker media encountered some web site outages when hurricane Sandy hit New York. Pleeeease. :tongue:
Who cares what a collection of amateurish blogging pseudo-journalists think? I dont but If I did I would just say: "Suck it petrolheads, your days are numbered. There's a new sheriff in town, it's made in the USA, powered by *American electrons and it kicks the crap out of your gear grinding air polluting terrorist supporting oil burner." * substitute your local country here
Indeed. F--- them. Every one of the Gawker sites is rife with bias while simultaneously being devoid of ethics. I find Jalopnik useful in that it's a shortcut to figure out what cars I am really not interested in.
I agree with the sentiment here. Jalopnik is frat boy journalism at its worst. They can't write an article on Ferrari without making a "burst into flames" joke. They are predictable and boorish.