[miltonlost]

Ah, and here my problem with Eric is he basically never criticizes Elon and only calls him "controversial". He's just a Musk mouthpiece at this point.

[amarant]

Ars is already a anti-Elon echo chamber. I stopped paying my subscription after a moderator endorsed a commenter issuing a (almost certainly empty) death threat to Elon.

I think death threats are a bit too far.

But in that environment I have to applause Eric for sticking to the technical and not giving in to the angry mob think that surrounds him. A true tech journalist with integrity.

A mouth piece would be lauding Elon where uncalled for. I've never seen him do that, but feel free to prove me wrong!

Imo Eric Berger and Beth Mole are the only parts of ars worth a damn anymore. If they started their own blog I would be happy to pay a subscription to them

[metabagel]

Musk illegally impounded funds resulting in about 800,000 deaths a year for the foreseeable future. It does tend to make one angry.

[mistercheph]

What would you do if you loved space as much as he does? There are no other heroes to cheer for

[mbreese]

Or many other sources. If you’re writing about Space, you kinda need to cover SpaceX. If you’re opening critical of everything the owner says, pretty soon you won’t have any sources at SpaceX to give you the insights you need to do your job. I get the impression that the space field is pretty small, so you might not want to burn too many bridges.

Also, mission lengths can cover decades. In this case, it might be best to have a short memory when the story has a long time horizon.

[ozmodiar]

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are no heroes to cheer for.

[kranke155]

Not sure what you’d like him to do here. He’s not a political journalist.