Originally the lesson from this was don't be cheap when you only have one shot to do something lest you create pink chunks when you need pink mist or some other

Originally the lesson from this was don't be cheap when you only have one shot to do something lest you create pink chunks when you need pink mist or some other worse than the starting point type situation. Now, well over 50yr later the most obvious lesson is how far the journalism profession has fallen when it comes to word choice.