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I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism:

I enjoyed the layered coverage of musk's fake flying car some outlets just flatly propped up the lie others tried to hide their ethical lapses by putting "flying car" in quotes others tried to do flimsy deep engineering dives to downplay their lazy pursuit of newscycle engagement great stuff!

If their revenue is per-click ad revenue, a lot of the media seem to be out to maximize engagements above everything else. That's a death spiral. The endpoint is news slop served by AI-powered bots.