That line about looking at the same patch of sky for 40 years and never getting tired of it really got me. My best shot is still one I took on a beat up point and shoot back in 2011, and nothing I've bought since has topped it. Gear comes and goes but that feeling of just catching something up there stays the same.

Heard a food safety reporter on a podcast last year say the same thing, that recalls get boiled down to one scary number and everyone downstream just copies it. The actual FDA enforcement reports are public, you can search them on the FDA site under the recall notices, and they list the real counts and the plants involved. Your point about the prior inspections is the part that bugs me most, because that context is usually sitting right there in the same document nobody links to. Local news does this a lot too, they grab the wire copy and never check the source. Honestly the whole thing makes me wonder how many other numbers I've repeated that were never real to begin with. Good on you for actually pulling the notice instead of just getting mad at the headline.