When you see a smart, promising startup get crushed in the traditional media, you may think the offending journalists are on the take or otherwise under the sway of the incumbents in the market. I’m sorry, but we screw up like that for much less exciting reasons.
Tesla may not have much of a case against the New York Times, but its threat to publish the logs a loaner Model S kept of an NYT reporter’s driving is a reminder of how connected devices provide data that can be used against a reviewer. Here, I suggest a couple of things tech journalists can do about that.