Link: Rumor Accounting

Shawn King for Stupid Apple Rumors:

Wouldn’t it be bet­ter if if your favorite site were more accu­rate? If they pub­lished fewer rumors from fewer sus­pect sources? If we could trust what they say more? Stupid Apple Rumors’ goal isn’t to have rumors go away — we like rumors as much as the next per­son — but to have the rumors, and the sites who pub­lish, waste less of our valu­able time with ridicu­lous sto­ries from ridicu­lous sources. Our goal is to track, doc­u­ment and report on the rumors and the sites that pub­lish them in the hopes that those sites will take notice and make a con­certed effort to get bet­ter at their jobs — thereby pro­vid­ing even greater value to you their read­er­ships and advertisers.

Honestly, the only thing that sur­prises me about this analy­sis is that the shit-bag rumor­mon­gers did as well as they did.