Ryan Mac of The New York Times talked about covering billionaire Elon Musk.
Here is an excerpt:
Some readers say our coverage is biased against Musk. Musk himself says The Times is unfair to him. The dynamic between reporters and the people they cover can be adversarial — is this one unusually so?
RYAN: I’ve reported on Musk for the better part of a decade now, and I started covering him as his distrust for reporters and media grew. You can’t take it personally. Over the years, I’ve interacted with him a handful of times, and I’ve had the expectation baked in that one of his first instincts will be to undermine or attack our reporting.
He’s the richest man in the world and one of the world’s most powerful people. Typically, these folks don’t appreciate scrutiny. His ownership of X allows him to shape public opinion and boost voices he aligns with — and yes, he temporarily barred me from the platform — but I have not been discouraged from doing my work because he’s posted something about my reporting or The Times.
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