Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

This new flavor of conservatism is so strange in light of how bound to free market ideals most flavors of conservatism are.

In general, I really quite dislike Conservative/Liberal labels as political stances are not two-dimensional, but rather multidimensional. Parties are loose alliances of disparate groups. And somehow there's this rising contingent of neocons, who also happen to dislike SpaceX.

Does anyone understand this?

Edit: I want to clarify that the alternative to private enterprise competing for government contracts (usually military, again usually a conservative delight) is direct government sponsorship, i.e. NASA.

SpaceX is one of those cases where the free market actually has been more effective. So why not seize on it?

The only consistency with Breitbart seems to be that they never let any of those annoying facts get in the way of the narrative. I can't see any ideological justification here, SpaceX getting money from the US government isn't fundamentally different than ULA getting money from the US government.

The article does imply at the end that there is likely someone behind these articles that has a specific interest in this narrative.

As much as I despise all "news" organizations, I say good.

Considering that most of the media has been fawning over musk and spacex and everything musk does, perhaps some criticism of musk is required in a free and democratic system.

I just don't like how so much of media are pretty much colluding with each other to spread the same narrative. On almost all topics, it seems like most of the media is pushing a particular narrative.

I wish we had a media environment where about a third is pro-musk, a third is anti-musk and a third is neutral.

The same with trump/obama/clinton, politics, technology, business, globalization, economics, international relations, etc.

All we seem to get is cheerleading by the media for one particular agenda.

I'm a believer in diversity and I think we need diversity in the media.

And I don't believe in saints. Musk has done a lot of good things, but he isn't a saint. He has done plenty of things that can be criticized. How most of his business lives off government subsidies. How much in bed he is with wall street. How he really hasn't invented or created anything new. Most of his proclamations and "inventions" are decades old technologies. None of his grandiose proposals have born fruit yet.

If all the media seems to do is praise or criticize, then I know something is wrong.

Edit: Wow, that was a swift and quick number of downvotes. I know that pay to play is a big thing in news ( both arstechnica and brietbart and everyone else does ). But I wonder if musk has pr firms working the social media scene?

I'm not saying I agree with them, but a common theme I hear from the alt-right is "no gods no masters" (Game of Thrones reference, ding on the pop-culture). Now, nevermind that these guys are setting up as many gatekeeping functions as they tear down; they simply justify it as "protecting real hard-working Americans" through xenophobia.

It's all built on the false nationalism of a flagging superpower, and if any of these people traveled in the least they would see that other countries are actually doing a lot of things better than we do here. We got arrogant, our politicians got greedy, and our voter base got complacent. It's only going to get worse too.