Wait, reddit is shutting down??
Reddit has a lot of anti-Elon users, I'm not sure that on net the users of that site support him/Tesla.
Tesla dissolves its PR department
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Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#52Are we just going to ignore that they have an 'External Relations' department? And that their own jobs board has positions posted two weeks ago for "Marketing & Communications", PR positions all across China, and for "Community Relations Partner"? This "news" is pure fabrication. https://www.tesla.com/careers/search#/?keyword=Communication...
The definite news is that they have stopped responding to emails from Jalopnik and Electrek and other news organizations.
The article explicitly explained that personnel from PR moved into External Relations.
The headline is far more sensational than the article. But that's been standard practice for centuries, not "pure fabrication"
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#53It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda.
I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are trying to slow and impede the progress of technology because they want to retain the right to manipulate the public via centralized advertising, marketing and mass media.
Nearly every single technology company in the United States that has a large enough user base is partially taken over by people with an agenda to slow down the pace of technology. There are severely mentally ill people who literally believe they are in a war against technology devouring people's jobs. Most corporations aren't telling people this because it is embarrassing. There is a growing e-commerce company in NY that was partially taken over and the employees they hired believed that you had to be enslaved (yes, enslaved I'm not kidding) to people who do no believe in technology in order to participate in technology. This is a real thing but not a single company is going to admit this is happening because they want everyone to believe they are perfect.
The way this works is that they use these departments to control the people in these companies and slow down innovation by creating unusual amounts of frustration and screwing with the advertising and public relations of companies to give technology and people in technology a bad image.
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#54It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda. I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are trying to slow and impede the progress of technology because they want to retain the right to manipulate the public via centralized advertising, marketing and mass media. Nearly every si…
Do you mean this is organized effort?
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only assume he wants to run the PR show himself by going on Joe Rogan and twitter. His man-of-the-people strategy does seem to have some merit. "Elon Musk" is arguably a stronger brand than Tesla.
I’m not sure having the Elon Musk brand be stronger than the Tesla brand is a good thing. He is a bit impulsive and seems like an asshole at times. People put up with it because, so far, his companies have produced some great products. When the other car manufacturers finally catch up to Tesla, the negative perception of the Elon Musk brand may drive some buyers away from Tesla.
He's the main reason the Tesla stock price is so high. If you are a shareholder of Tesla that cares mostly about capital gains, you really want it to continue.
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#56It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda. I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are trying to slow and impede the progress of technology because they want to retain the right to manipulate the public via centralized advertising, marketing and mass media. Nearly every si…
Do you mean this is organized effort?
Not the GP - it doesn't have to be organized; things like this come into existence emergently, without the need for coordination.
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#57"There are obviously still people arranging test-drive promotions for YouTubers but their role isn’t in a traditional public relations capacity." Remember when people used to say Tesla doesn't do marketing? The last few years of Tesla has been quite sobering for myself as I had my worldview flipped upside down. With Elon/Tesla, as more information has come out with time, it's been disenchanting. I was sold a capitali…
What new information has disenchanted you? Full disclaimer: happy Tesla owner here.
Not original commenter, but for one thing, all the emissions being saved by Teslas being electric? Tesla sold the credits to Fiat/Chrysler so their cars can have higher emissions: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/teslas-sale-of-environmental...
My math is wonky, does that mean on average, a Tesla is just as polluting as a Fiat/Chrysler car?
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#58It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda. I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are trying to slow and impede the progress of technology because they want to retain the right to manipulate the public via centralized advertising, marketing and mass media. Nearly every si…
Unsourced conspiracy nonsense.
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#59It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda. I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are trying to slow and impede the progress of technology because they want to retain the right to manipulate the public via centralized advertising, marketing and mass media. Nearly every si…
Do you mean this is organized effort?
In some places it is an organized effort of a small number of people. It's literally small groups of people independently doing this all over the country.
Re: Tesla dissolves its PR department
#60There are obviously still people arranging test-drive promotions for YouTubers but their role isn’t in a traditional public relations capacity.
There's your problem right there. Why bother answering questions from some whining car blogger or lamestream media outlet when Tesla can 100x its messaging impact with a select group of YouTubers and Instagram influencers? If people want the truth about Tesla, Elon will tweet the facts, light one up with Rogan, or harness a cabal of anonymous Reddit users to put the message out there.
Easy!