The New York Times public editor now has an initial response to the Tesla Motors blog post, "Conflicting Assertions Over an Electric Car Test Drive," just submitted to HN,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5221679

and that post promises more follow-up to come and links out to some other commentary on the story from other sources.

A Washington Post blog also comments about the dispute as a matter of journalistic practice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/02/1...