On 08/18/2016 05:40 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
On 18 Aug 2016 at 13:35, damon henry via EV wrote:
Of course I know nothing about the TV station involved either, I just
find the original assertion nonsensical and highly unlikely.
Damon somehow got the impression the comments were in response to
specific media coverage. It was not. It was an observation on the
excessive coverage of the French Tesla fire in all media outlets. As
illustrated by Bruce's search results.
I have some previous professional involvement in broadcast media. Most news
directors will tell you that there's a "firewall" (no pun intended) between
the sales department and the news department.
However, in practice this barrier gets breached. Management will sometimes
ask (or tell) news to soft-pedal negative stories about the station's or
network's advertisers. The more they spend, and the longer they've spent,
the more likely this is to happen.
As for deliberately playing up negative stories about non-advertisers, I
can't say it never happens, but I personally haven't witnessed it. In this
case, my guess is that the individual reporters or news directors involved
just have an anti-EV bias. This should be no surprise. Lots of folks do,
especially gear-heads who get their kicks from ICEVs. For these people the
ICE stink and noise are features, not bugs.
For years here in Texas, we have been following the efforts to unfetter
Tesla sales restraints. Almost no legislative progress has been made.
It certainly seems that Texas Automotive Dealers Association controls
our state government. They are BIG advertisers in all branches of the
media. Many pages in newspapers. Hours every day on TV. The TADA
position is that Tesla should engage independent dealers to sell their
cars. That is despite the obvious interest of dealers to sell cars that
demand a lot of maintenance and repair. The media refuses to report the
true story: that going through dealers would kill Tesla sales.
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