Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales
A trend that's been growing for quite a (long!) while now is exemplified by this article: "<i>Tesla did not respond to Ars’ request for comment on Sunday.</i>"<p>Who in their right minds realistically expects <i>any</i> organisation to respond to some random journalistic enquiry <i>on a Sunday</i>?<p>The other major variant of this shyster tactic is along the lines of, "Company X failed to respond <i>immediately</i> when asked for comment." No company is able to respond <i>immediately</i>, particularly not on an issue that's likely contentious. Any response would need to be run by their PR and legal people at the very least.<p>It's a cheap and nasty way to make companies look/feel uncaring about the issue being reported, but imho it does nothing but reflect poorly on the reporter and publication using these smelly tactics, and leaves me wondering what other agendas they may have running.