NASA PAO Does The Bare Minimum (Again) To Announce Another Discovery

Keith’s note: NASA PAO posted this release today: NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet. Really cool stuff. Webb can do this amazing observation in just a few hours. You’d think that NASA PAO would want as many people as possible to see this – i.e. on NASA.gov etc. Well they posted the release including this line : “The team’s paper, entitled “The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b,” will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on March 22.” But there is no link to an open access version of the paper. Guess what – it is here https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00620 and it was posted on 11 February 2023 – more than a month ago. I have told SMD PAO multiple times where to find these things such that the hundreds of millions of people who pay the taxes to do this stuff can share in the discovery – but they seem to be uninterested in taking 60 seconds to go look for the paper. Why is NASA PAO so negligent in spreading its own good news?