Anyone else notice that it's also specifically the Wall Street Journal trying to run this angle?

That's funny, the Tesla fans keep hating on Bloomberg. Could it be that everyone who writes critical pieces on their financials are hostiles?

Their stock is highly shorted.

I'm half tempted to start asking the authors of these pieces to declare any positions they have in the stock.

The people of import who are shorting TSLA (Chanos etc) aren't exactly working on a journalist's salary.

More importantly, the short interest has been high for ages, and TSLA has received a ton of positive press in that time, as well.

I'm not convinced the journalists themselves are shorting anything (though I'd still like to know), but I don't think it's an accident that journalists are getting tips over silly minor crap like someone taking a well-earned vacation.

In other words, I really don't think this kind of press silliness is accidental and "random Tesla guy takes vacation" isn't usually a hot news story.

Where there’s smoke there’s fire.