"The presentation serves as something of a shiny distraction for Musk and the media alike"
This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Musk, that he's somehow just messing around, liable to get bored with his companies, with Twitter. The reality is his tweets are a surface sideshow, essentially inconsequential. He's been telling the exact same story with his companies for decades, to the point of tedium. I doubt he gets "distracted". Look at his actual track record (which isn't his tweets).
The Elon vs. Obama article should go into Tablet's collection on the Decline of the Press.
"The presentation serves as something of a shiny distraction for Musk and the media alike"
This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Musk, that he's somehow just messing around, liable to get bored with his companies, with Twitter. The reality is his tweets are a surface sideshow, essentially inconsequential. He's been telling the exact same story with his companies for decades, to the point of tedium. I doubt he gets "distracted". Look at his actual track record (which isn't his tweets).
The media, on the other hand...