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I'm genuinely fascinated by this sort of weird pseudo-journalism. It vaguely looks like journalism but it doesn't actually care about labor, ethics, real-world impact, or even that the key IPO architect is an overt authoritarian

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Like, I firmly believe the authors of the NYT piece really think they did a very good job. I suspect they're conditioned by ownership to believe that just sanding off all the relevant bits of truth is just professionalism.

How about the fact that the success of the SpaceX IPO depends on Musk creating a million person settlement on Mars, something that only the delusional could believe will happen in his lifetime, if ever. People thinking of investing need to be given a copy of this book to read.

space.com'A City on Mars' is a reality check for anyone dreaming about life on the Red PlanetIt wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing — and we wrote for four years — that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon.

So sure of fulfilling their "heavy burden of objectivity". It seems baked in...truth and facts can seem like an attack to their timid souls. Plus, the boss....

“Society News” always sells, it sells myth & image, but it sells. It is “Tabloidism”; it is replacing true journalism bc of corporate control of narrative in everything we are exposed to. Image making

If those are too hard, there's also the more simple question of "is this valuation warranted?" and "why is SpaceX bundled with grok and twitter?". Those seem like important questions when pronouncing someone a trillionaire based on the stock prices of companies with very little free float

they briefly touch on the possibility, but it's quickly dismissed they literally spend more time on mentioning party decor