I will preface this by saying that my personal feeling is that ETH's fate is already known, and has been verbalized to him, and the press is simply lagging behind in the story because it has been kept airtight.
However, if that is not the case, then it is appalling treatment of ETH to leave him in limbo, not knowing if he is going to be continuing on or not. Regardless of your feelings towards him as our manager, that would be basic decency to not leave him in the dark at a point where a decision should have already been made.