"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
I was once in a key role in an international news event. Not one article was even close. Not one person ever asked me, not that I would have shared what I knew.
Years later I found this. Now I don't watch the news. I've luckily avoided the "believe any stupid bullshit as long as it contradicts the news" trap many news disrespectoors fall for.
I just go on best I can based on what is immediately around me. This hasn't hurt me yet. Turns out most news is only good for getting mad and yelling at other people. I'm still guilty there sometimes when news makes its way to me despite my efforts to avoid it. We all have more growing to do and I'm working on it.
This being Gell-Mann Amnesia from my last post.
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well said!
(and now I'm really curious what the international news event was...)
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