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I hate rumors. Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. I hate 'em because they raise unreasonable expectations based on inadequate information, and because I feel like our job, as journalists, is to tell you what's true, not just to parrot random things we found on the Internet.
I also feel the rumor mill is unfair to the companies making the products. Take the recent rumor that RIM has "cancelled" two phones which it never announced. It hasn't cancelled them. It never announced them. Should companies be forced to go forward with every idea they spitball because some employee leaked pictures onto the Internet? No. But the rumors and leaks raise that expectation.
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