Limited journalistic time/attention are not the cause of Gell-Mann amnesia. Journalists at major outlets are smart enough to get things right within the time/attention budget. The problem is they are incentivized to get it wrong. "Experts" will succumb too if subject to them t.co/5kZPLIK86B
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Varies by sector and pattern of relationships with the powerful people in the areas they cover. Basically the set of issues we bundle under "access journalism" plus of course the usual temptations of clickbaiting, sensationalism, riding existing memes parasitically etc.

