“There is absolutely no value in using “annualized run rates” for anyone other than the company and its investors, and the fact that modern tech and business journalism continues to accept it for what are meant to be the largest and most-important companies in the world is a sign that something is very wrong with how we cover the tech industry.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Annualized run rates have absolutely no value for anyone other than the company and its investors, and tech and business journalism's continued acceptance of them for the largest companies is a sign that something is very wrong with tech coverage.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Annualized Enron Rate, paragraph 16.
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- Kind
- Recommendation or value judgment
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
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- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
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Conditions
- for anyone other than the company and its investors (scope, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- for anyone other than the company and its investors
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- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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Evidence (0 items)
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: Where's Your Ed At, Annualized Enron Rate
There is absolutely no value in using “annualized run rates” for anyone other than the company and its investors, and the fact that modern tech and business journalism continues to accept it for what are meant to be the largest and most-important companies in the world is a sign that something is very wrong with how we cover the tech industry.
- Where
- paragraph 16
- Published
- 2026-10-13
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-annualized-enron-rate-cacb26-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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