@paulg Mistaken is a nice way of putting it.
When the press writes about a topic you know well, you realize every news article you've read could have been equally mistaken.
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@paulg Michael Crichton called this the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesia-effect/ … -
@Malcolm_Ocean Thank you for posting that! I knew it had a name but I'd forgotten it and found it completely ungoogleable. :) - Show replies
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@paulg Also, when you're misquoted in news articles, you realize that everybody else is probably being misquoted too. -
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@paulg That's a real thing. It's called The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, so named by Michael Crichton: http://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesia-effect/ … -
@TuckerMax@paulg years ago I LOVED The Economist, broke my heart when they absolutely whiffed it on a topic I knew well.
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@paulg Journalists chase the ‘Story’. Truth is the first casualty of Narrative. -
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