Currently reading a twitter thread where a publication specializing in X made a claim which is obviously and materially wrong to anyone practicing in X, where they were apprised of this, and where the editor responded, approximately, "Yeah, words are complicated."
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Twitter has had more impact on my perception of journalism than any other profession. I've learned that doing good journalism is hard, and gained a lot of admiration for individual journalists, but there are strong disincentives against admitting error.
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Yep. Organizational and individual imperatives to sharply limit corrections and retractions, two words which mean a different thing to insiders than they mean to consumers of news.
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This is somewhat related to the so-called Gell-Mann amnesia effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect …): "you read... the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page... and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read."
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I am reminded of this almost every time radio news shows do a piece about technical topics I’m familiar with. Makes me wonder if technical topics are harder, or are they wrong about almost everything?
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I like to bear this in mind when reading about a topic I'm *not* an expert in. Just because you don't notice the inaccuracies doesn't mean they aren't there. (quality across a publication is often similar, so you can often work it out from an article you *do* know a lot about)
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Seen this a few times, can never trust the publication again because on topics you're not an expert in you need to have that trust.
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We should value and place more trust in media that readily and transparently issues corrections, but instead too many of us use corrections to smear the media for their initial missteps, thus disincentivizing corrections in the first place.
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Could you DM me the thread? I'm currently writing a long piece about this phenomenon and I've been looking for examples (https://twitter.com/sohamsankaran/status/1113226450419585024 …).
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