In 1973, The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its Watergate investigation, due in large part to its focus on the details. Nearly 40 years, later the digital version of the Post illustrates how far its come or fallen.

This weeks blog post The end of fish, in one chart chirps about the ills of commercial fishing and gleefully cites a recent study that finds commercial fish stocks are on pace for total collapse by 2048, leaving only jellyfish left in the ocean.

The detail left out by the author is that the recent study was published 6 years ago and has been updated. The new study, by the same author, stands in opposition to the original statistic. In fact for years independent experts have blasted the 2048 statistic and the way it was reached saying it, “threatens the very heart of the scientific process,” and was “fallacious and inappropriate to appear in a scientific journal,” not to mention “just mind boggling stupid.”

So, the statistic is fallacious, inappropriate and mind bogglingly stupid, but its fit to print in the Washington Post. Ben Bradlee must be welling up with pride as the outlet whose muckraking helped bring down a president fails to Google a statistic before going to print.