It's more of a footnote problem. The critical details need to percolate up to public focus, and if that detail was only mentioned as a side note at the end, then that process is obviously failing. The scary bit is that the Challenger investigation showed this was a _huge_ issue, and apparently still existed many years later [1].
Granted, it's a terribly hard thing to fix, getting the right information to the right people with the right priority. But this shows how critical it is to do just that.
Granted, it's a terribly hard thing to fix, getting the right information to the right people with the right priority. But this shows how critical it is to do just that.
[1] Obligatory Tufte comments: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0... (See also Feynman's comments on his experience on the investigation board in Surely You're Joking)