"NBC News ...backed off a dubious claim that Americans use 1.6 straws a day on average, after critics noted it was based on research from a nine-year-old boy whose methodology never has undergone any significant scrutiny.
NBC tweeted Sunday, “Correction: An earlier version of this article included a debunked statistic that Americans throw away 500M drinking straws a day, or 1.6 a day per person..."
Previously, the network had a different story.
“@NBCNewsBETTER: At an average rate Americans use 1.6 straws per person a day-- most of them ending up in our waterways. We can do better,” the NBC News official Twitter account tweeted on Saturday, one day before Earth Day.
Previously, the network had a different story.
“@NBCNewsBETTER: At an average rate Americans use 1.6 straws per person a day-- most of them ending up in our waterways. We can do better,” the NBC News official Twitter account tweeted on Saturday, one day before Earth Day.
Correction: An earlier version of this article included a debunked statistic that Americans throw away 500M drinking straws a day, or 1.6 a day per person.
Previous tweets with the article will be deleted, and an updated tweet will be issued. nbcnews.to/2K6fCOX
The tweet linked to an NBC News Better article with the title, “Fighting pollution by saying ‘no’ to plastic straws.”
...“If it’s any comfort for NBC, it can take comfort in knowing it’s not alone in spreading this dubious statistic.
On the contrary, NBC is merely the latest in a long string of newsrooms to repeat the 500 million straws claim,” Becket Adams wrote in the Washington Examiner at the time."
...“If it’s any comfort for NBC, it can take comfort in knowing it’s not alone in spreading this dubious statistic.
On the contrary, NBC is merely the latest in a long string of newsrooms to repeat the 500 million straws claim,” Becket Adams wrote in the Washington Examiner at the time."
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