Intellectually Dishonest
About blaming the advertisers, that is...
I hate to be the latest guy to pile on, but it’s not the first time and won’t be the last... plus it’s an easy way to get back into the grind after a few weeks of traveling. Now, onto the show...
He said, what?
I’m not talking about Elon Musk’s “go fuck yourself” comment, after Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC and the New York Times asked the world’s richest man (as of last count) about an advertising boycott of his X, the former Twitter.
I’m more focused on his attempt to lay the blame on advertisers if the company fails... in hopes, no doubt, that his most ardent users and fans will boycott advertisers that boycotted X.
Before I go further, if you missed the interview, which you can see here, a quick summary...
‘I Hope They Stop’
Earlier in the day Disney CEO Bob Iger told Sorkin that his firm had pulled advertising from X because doing so was “not a positive” for his company.
When Sorkin brought that up, Musk shot back, “I hope they stop,” adding, “Don’t advertise.”
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Musk then accused the advertisers of trying to “blackmail” him.
He added...
What this advertising boycott is gonna do is it’s going to kill the company. And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company, and we will document it in great detail.
Sorkin then said, “And those advertisers will say we didn’t kill the company.”
Musk responded, “Oh yeah, tell it to earth...”
To which Sorkin said, “They’re going to say Elon you killed the company because you said these things and they were inappropriate things and they didn’t feel comfortable on the platform...”
Musk responded, “And let’s see how earth responds to that.”
There was more, but no need to rehash it. I’m still back on his use of the word “earth.” Who speaks that way? Okay, Musk does, but the whole exchange underscored something deeper... (To read more please click here.)
Full stack Web Developer & Graphic Designer,
1 年My faverate persnolity Elan??
He is a complete and total disgrace to Humanity
Architect and Design Manager
1 年Honesty and integrity must prevail over expediency, especially when 15000 have been murdered and the killing fields in Gazza are like duck shooting open season. Shame on Western leaders for aid and abetting genocide and shame on you Herb for skirting that hot brand.
Embedded System Engineer
1 年Would you like him to be double standarded just to impress the customer! Customers are trying to force x to take one side of story, they've no right to do so
this is a very tricky story to 'decode' - by which I mean make rational and objective sense of. I think the reason for this is that: a) advertising is a 'strange thing' the nature of which doesn't get discussed much in the media ( I wonder why that can be...) b) it's curious that folks happily use media platforms which mainly cost them their time & attention, not being fairly wise about how that can be arranged ( by the powerful wanting to program the many...) or what the impact is. c) Elon Musk's response doesn't really deliver much of the magic or grandeur of his many other achievements - so it's a little disconcerting - i.e. surely he'd do a very clever, witty and winning repost? As I claimed - tricky one... JW.