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0 pointssenko22d ago0 comments

Berger wrote 2 books about SpaceX (not Musk), and he definitely does not have a pro-Musk bias.

He's is careful not to opine on Musk's other dealings, which is fair. As someone who wants to know more about SpaceX, I don't want to read yet more about Tesla, or Twitter, or Trump, or Epstein.

Personally, one of the authors I most like to read on ArsTechnica (though he writes rarely nowadays).

CarTechnica though .. yuck. Also, Oulette reliably picks movies and TV shows I will absolutely hate, so I guess good S/N there?

Mole's coverage is great if you're into Cronenberg-but-in-real-life.

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cubefox22d ago

I think it's pretty widely agreed in the space flight community that Eric Berger is currently the best space flight reporter in the world. He has lots of insider sources. Several times he correctly predicted things years in advance. Most recently the Artemis III change to a LEO mission.

latexr22d ago

> He's is careful not to opine on Musk's other dealings, which is fair. As someone who wants to know more about SpaceX, I don't want to read yet more about Tesla, or Twitter, or Trump, or Epstein.

But all of those matter, and are not isolated. When the leader of an organisation is distracted by the other organisations they control, it matters. It also matters when they are repeatedly wrong about their predictions, even if on another organisation, because it helps you calibrate expectations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

senkoOP22d ago

> But all of those matter, and are not isolated.

And have been done to death elsewhere.

Meanwhile, Berger produces balanced, informed, interesting, and informative coverage of space tech (in general, not just SpaceX).

latexr22d ago

Fair. I misunderstood your original post as “not wanting to read/care at all about”, but you did say “yet more”. Thank you for clarifying.

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0 pointssenko22d ago0 comments

Berger wrote 2 books about SpaceX (not Musk), and he definitely does not have a pro-Musk bias.

He's is careful not to opine on Musk's other dealings, which is fair. As someone who wants to know more about SpaceX, I don't want to read yet more about Tesla, or Twitter, or Trump, or Epstein.

Personally, one of the authors I most like to read on ArsTechnica (though he writes rarely nowadays).

CarTechnica though .. yuck. Also, Oulette reliably picks movies and TV shows I will absolutely hate, so I guess good S/N there?

Mole's coverage is great if you're into Cronenberg-but-in-real-life.

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cubefox22d ago

latexr22d ago

> He's is careful not to opine on Musk's other dealings, which is fair. As someone who wants to know more about SpaceX, I don't want to read yet more about Tesla, or Twitter, or Trump, or Epstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

senkoOP22d ago

> But all of those matter, and are not isolated.

And have been done to death elsewhere.

Meanwhile, Berger produces balanced, informed, interesting, and informative coverage of space tech (in general, not just SpaceX).

latexr22d ago

Fair. I misunderstood your original post as “not wanting to read/care at all about”, but you did say “yet more”. Thank you for clarifying.

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