On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:03:12 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Any why not release the explosion video? The national
media paid not a whit of attention to the launch attempt.
They would have if SpaceX had released what is probably
a spectacular failure video. Bad press is good publicity
in this era.



Welcome to the business world. The only thing a large
company really cares about is what it's investors think.
And the only thing an investor really cares about is
what potential investors think.

In this case, the only (or at least primary) investor is Elon himself.