I didn't hear the call but that article has a pretty clear agenda given how many shots it took. That was not a news story, it was a hit piece editorial. Furthermore only MarketWatch is reporting on it.

Reuters is covering it too. It's on the front page of Yahoo Finance.

"The price of Musk cutting off analysts? For Tesla, it's $2 billion"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/price-cutting-off-analysts-te...

> In a note titled "The Importance of 'Boring' Questions," Morgan Stanley's Jonas called into question Tesla's financial standing.

> "While they may be 'dry' in nature, we argue such questions are extremely important for a highly-levered and cash-hungry company," Jonas said.

> Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas said it was the most unusual call he had heard in 20 years in the business.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-takes-hit-elon-13...

> Furthermore only MarketWatch is reporting on it.

Untrue, I just didn't go out of my way to fill my comment with a pile of URLs considering news aggregators were chock full of them [1], all saying largely the same thing.

[1] https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/musk%20tesla%2...

More than half of those weren't written when I said that 6 hours ago, and of the remainder the majority don't paint anywhere near the picture MarketWatch did.

For posterity sake: I didn't cherry-pick the MarketWatch link from the comment. It was one from several tabs I had open on the topic at the time from casual news consumption, and they all seemed similar enough for me to not particularly care.