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think critically instead of just lapping up yahoo news
Posted on: December 31, 2017 at 11:16:07 CT
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I read an interesting piece from famed author Michael Crichton on what he termed the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect:
“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.”
I have been interviewed probably somewhere around 100x. I have given information to news outlets probably 1,000's of times. it was alarming to me just how frequently the information I gave them was misreported. or how often my interviews were edited to look almost completely different from what was actually said.
it was really then that I began to question the news. b/c I looked at situations where I knew the inside details backward and forwards and compared that to how it was reported and the two often didn't even resemble one another.
there are obviously some good investigative reporters out there and not all journalists are hacks but there are far too many to trust everything you read.
I read an interesting piece from famed author Michael Crichton on what he termed the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect:
“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.”
I have been interviewed probably somewhere around 100x. I have given information to news outlets probably 1,000's of times. it was alarming to me just how frequently the information I gave them was misreported. or how often my interviews were edited to look almost completely different from what was actually said.
it was really then that I began to question the news. b/c I looked at situations where I knew the inside details backward and forwards and compared that to how it was reported and the two often didn't even resemble one another.
there are obviously some good investigative reporters out there and not all journalists are hacks but there are far too many to trust everything you read.
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think critically instead of just lapping up yahoo news - blake1771 KC - 12/31 11:16:07