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Model 3 Crash. WHY is this NEWS?

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Because Business Insider is hot garbage with a penchant for targeting Tesla.

That article just mentions a bunch of key words like hospital, children and Tesla without providing any actual details. :rolleyes:

Please don't link their stuff, as it just gives more attention, more clicks and more incentive to continue targeting Tesla.

Why is this in the Model Y forum?
 
I only realised the other week why Tesla is such a target for negative press - because they don't advertise.
Th Main Stream Media is dying on its feet compared to Internet offerings and Tesla becomes the natural enemy when they don't play by the rules and spend Billions of dollars advertising. They also don't cosy-up to the motoring correspondents with gifts and jollies in exotic places. Added to that it is August - the silly season for news (sillier - for MSM).
It is only hours later that the news reports that there was a 47 year old woman in the Tesla - and she wasn't injured. So only a few hours with people speculating the car has somehow driven itself into the children...
 
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Elon's strategy is to turn himslef and Tesla into a celebrity which means that everything that he or Tesla does makes news. If Ford or GM introduces a new car they have to pay millions of dollars for a Superbowl ad, all Elon has to do is tweet. The downside of celebrity is that everything bad that happens to you is also treated like news. The travails of Meghan Markle and the prince she turned into a frog are in the news everyday, that's the price for celebrity. If someone crashes a Tesla it's news, if someone crashes any other car it's not.
 
If you've noticed that there's an incredibly powerful news and social media mafia that are now running this country (and the world), then you probably noticed that Elon is not part of this mafia. In fact, he publicly feuds with the main members of that mafia, so you would not only expect him not to get favorable treatment in the news, but get hammered at every opportunity.
 
It's the Internet. There's a lot that gets published that wouldn't have been newsworthy decades ago. However, articles about Teslas, EVs, autonomous cars tend to get a lot of positive and negative reactions and activity (clicks, views, reposts, etc.) which is what digital news organizations live on.

For better or worse (I'd say worse), the fanboys, the haters, the oversensitive, etc. drive a lot of web activity and the media companies recognize that. If this had been a more generic article about a car accident at a school in England, it's very unlikely it would have ever made it to this forum for example.
 
Anytime there is a crash with a Tesla it is all over the news. ICE companies are really scared of what Tesla is doing.

I find that kind of tin foil hat thinking. "ICE companies" don't have that much control over what is published online. A reason why there are arguably a disproportionate number of Tesla (focused) articles is because there are a disproportionate number of Tesla fanboys, haters, oversensitive owners, etc. that generate more clicks, views, reposts, etc. for these types of articles.

The media companies publish articles that they hope will get the most clicks and views and therefore revenue. When there's a lot of love, hate and especially debate out there about certain subjects (such as Tesla, Elon Musk, EVs, autonomous vehicles, etc.), the media tries to take advantage when they can.

Catastrophic events and divisive topics draw in the listeners, viewers, clicks, screen time, ratings, revenue, etc.
 
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Not quite an accident with personal injuries that the OP posted, but it IS about a Mach-E:

Yep, "WOULD BE AWESOME EV PROJECT"
Nothing mentioned about parties involved and if there were injuries, autopilot error, or ....(insert catchy stuff here)

I feel like all the news lately based on some Instagram or Snapchat stories where something happened to someone, and how someone else responded.
Same with that Business Insider garbage.

I live north of Baltimore and we have daily shootings and killings in "Charm City", which is not popular thing to report. Some outlets completely ignore it altogether.

But catchy phrase of Tesla injuring people, catching on fire will provides enough clicks for idiots to earn their advertising money.
 
Yeah, for better or worse, Tesla is in the news because it's the new-kid-on-the-block that doesn't play by traditional media rules of the game. A single-car ICE vehicle accident which results in a fire that destroys the car won't merit a mention in the newspaper or local TV coverage. But change it to a Tesla and suddenly that's a story "important" enough to be placed in the front section or teased by the 11PM news anchors.