Scott McNealy will resign as CEO of Sun Microsystems, according to a Forbes story reportedly in the works. But when a journalist (and tipster) called Sun, they'd heard no such thing.

The story might have started at the more risk-taking MarketWatch, which spun an analyst report ("given this, this, and that, McNealy's work might be done here") into a prediction ("oh, he's so out"). Now a pundit-driven rumor will be presented as fact, sparking a media rush on the story and eventually convincing the actual subjects to hold on for a while. And you know we just hate that sort of thing.

Sun Micro CEO could be gearing to leave - analyst report [MarketWatch]
Earlier: Lloyd Braun becomes (more) useless to Yahoo [Valleywag]

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