Megan McArdle
The reason you do not give sources one hour deadlines, except under extremely extenuating circumstances, is that you risk embarrassing yourself by publishing something false, as ProPublica came perilously close to doing. They were very lucky he came up with his acceptance letter on short notice.
Greg Price
ProPublica's Editor-in-Chief claimed that they gave @PeteHegseth a fair chance to respond to the West Point story because they "care about accuracy." According to this unhinged email obtained by @reaganreese_, they straight up accused him of being a liar and gave him a one hour deadline to respond.
