A little more than a week ago we told you, in excruciating detail, how badly The Economist had botched its reporting on the USGS report on mercury in non-commercial recreational fish. Well, this week it chose to print our letter as part of its journalistic mea culpa for doing such a hatchet job.
The Economist, like others, are learning that when it comes to reporting on seafood it's easier to get it right the first time than it is to publicly wipe egg off your face.
