Officials at the agency knew about the use of potentially dangerous “forever chemicals” in protective gear years before publicly acknowledging the issue, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.
Some of this is just double dipping/bumping their earlier report, but I really appreciate that they follow up on the impacts of their reporting and announce corrections in the same place that highlighted the failure. So many other news outlets just do a story and then it’s over. Anything that doesn’t happen in the first 24 hours becomes basically irrelevant and they’re not particularly careful about what they say in those 24 hours.
Some of this is just double dipping/bumping their earlier report, but I really appreciate that they follow up on the impacts of their reporting and announce corrections in the same place that highlighted the failure. So many other news outlets just do a story and then it’s over. Anything that doesn’t happen in the first 24 hours becomes basically irrelevant and they’re not particularly careful about what they say in those 24 hours.
Ah yes. “Wrong but not for long”