Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Emily Bell & Heather Chaplin, 5/4/26
Headline: “Journalism in the Age of Techno-Kings”
Subhead: “How Elon Musk is colonizing the future.”
“Before Elon Musk, there was Henry Ford: an attention-seeking car manufacturer, newspaper owner, and media celebrity who pushed reactionary views on the public and transformed society around his business interests. . .”
“In a new book, Muskism, Ben Tarnoff, a technology writer, and Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Boston University, analyze Musk in similar terms, as a maverick businessman who stands for a new type of society and a new social contract. They find that “Muskism” provides a far more dystopian package than Fordism’s offering. . .”
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