Tesla CEO Elon Musk blasts media, pitches site to rate journalists (usatoday.com)

It should have analytics on how many times they were correct or incorrect in their facts presented in there articles and stats on how likely their predictions came true. I started writing a basic program along these lines that would try to identify smart Twitter users from less intelligent ones based on the accuracy of their predictions on a stock.

EDIT: I guess some people prefer the bliss of ignorance as evidence by downvotes.

Alex Ferguson would do the same, and reporters would curry favour with him in order to maintain access. This is just bully-boy press relations.