It's not that the analyst is lying, it's that the shorts are trying to stop the analyst's clients from buying.
Whether or not any hit piece comes out, the short has effectively stopped buying pressure from the analyst's clients by telling the analyst, "Hey buddy, I've got a report coming out soon, you better tell your clients to watch out" ... there were similar rumors floating around in September when the stock was at $8 ... and no report came out.
Think about it, if the shorts had hard evidence against CCME, why wait until now to release it after already going through a squeeze from 8-20?
Why tell analysts ahead of time that a piece is coming out at all if they do, in fact, have the goods? makes no sense until you see it as a tactic to buy time.
