A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
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Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#2Musk seems to attract so, so many tinfoil hat type conspiracy theories. He's veering into being almost a Hank Rearden caricature.
EDIT: The tinfoil bit was over the top, but he's such a lightning rod and attracts so much criticism and persecution from the entrenched interests he is trying to disrupt, that it starts to look like there is some shadowy cabal trying to bring him down. I rather like the guy, we need some level of technological optimism to counteract the gloom and doom that is ever present.
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#3And yet somehow a company sharing its acronym with the name "Lying Manipulative G's" is merely par for the course in today's world. "if you can't beat em, join em!"
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#4Musk seems to attract so, so many tinfoil hat type conspiracy theories. He's veering into being almost a Hank Rearden caricature. EDIT: The tinfoil bit was over the top, but he's such a lightning rod and attracts so much criticism and persecution from the entrenched interests he is trying to disrupt, that it starts to look like there is some shadowy cabal trying to bring him down. I rather like the guy, we need some…
"Boeing often employs PR firms against their competitors" is hardly a conspiracy theory.
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#5Musk seems to attract so, so many tinfoil hat type conspiracy theories. He's veering into being almost a Hank Rearden caricature. EDIT: The tinfoil bit was over the top, but he's such a lightning rod and attracts so much criticism and persecution from the entrenched interests he is trying to disrupt, that it starts to look like there is some shadowy cabal trying to bring him down. I rather like the guy, we need some…
A tin-foil hat isn't really required, you just need to RTFA: An article critical of SpaceX has been repeatedly submitted to (and published in) 4 newspapers by a PR group called LMG who list Boeing as one of their major customers. Boeing are SpaceX's only competitor in the commercial crew area.
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#6Musk seems to attract so, so many tinfoil hat type conspiracy theories. He's veering into being almost a Hank Rearden caricature. EDIT: The tinfoil bit was over the top, but he's such a lightning rod and attracts so much criticism and persecution from the entrenched interests he is trying to disrupt, that it starts to look like there is some shadowy cabal trying to bring him down. I rather like the guy, we need some…
Is the accusation of something being a "conspiracy theory" still a valid dismissal after Snowden?
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#7Sounds like reasonably standard PR efforts for ULA. Seems like the news media should have done a better job vetting their sources.
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#8Short version of the article:
One op-ed article attacking SpaceX's safety practices appears in the newspapers of several space-industry-oriented cities. The article is not written by the person it is attributed to, but rather by two people apparently affiliated with a PR firm in Washington, DC. One of the three main clients of said PR firm is Boeing, SpaceX's direct competitor.
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#9Seems like run-o-the-mill big corporation FUD to me, and not even particularly well executed distribution of said FUD. Doesn't strike me as overly newsworthy. Am I missing something here?
Re: A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
#10Musk seems to attract so, so many tinfoil hat type conspiracy theories. He's veering into being almost a Hank Rearden caricature. EDIT: The tinfoil bit was over the top, but he's such a lightning rod and attracts so much criticism and persecution from the entrenched interests he is trying to disrupt, that it starts to look like there is some shadowy cabal trying to bring him down. I rather like the guy, we need some…
A tin-foil hat isn't really required, you just need to RTFA: An article critical of SpaceX has been repeatedly submitted to (and published in) 4 newspapers by a PR group called LMG who list Boeing as one of their major customers. Boeing are SpaceX's only competitor in the commercial crew area.
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