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The trouble with this I think can be covered by two key issues:

1. I did a Control-F "exponential" and found no hits in TFA. I know I struggled trying to come to grips mentally with the real world impacts of an exponential growth curve. Sure, zero cases today, ok 1 case next week, ... the human brain can comprehend linear growth, but exponential growth was very hard for me to understand.

2. Navel-gazing is par for the course for the types of people who typically become journalists (I'm stereotyping here). However in the current legal environment I can imagine it can be dangerous to admit that you've made mistakes in the past. It could easily be weaponized against you as proof that you intentionally defrauded or misled people. To be clear, this is a horrible scenario and an anti-pattern. But when you have about 48% of the voting populace who have been pre-programmed to hate you - not mincing words here - then any admittance of fault or nuance will be lost, and will lead to even more vitriol and distrust.