Some people here are missing a very fundamental point regarding the BEA release.
Its job was to give up just enough information, about a story of massive interest, to satisfy the general media - who will then go off and write about other stuff.
To suggest the BEA release contained every scrap of new information, and that it couldn't possibly give out any more to specialised aerospace journalists who know what they're talking about, is ludicrous.
And suggestions that professional journalists should shut up and just regurgitate press releases, instead of having the savvy to ask for those additional bit of information - the bits which the daily-rag press isn't interested in - is the sort of nonsense which doesn't belong in a sensible discussion.