The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect or, Why idiots continue to trust the media when they are demonstrably wrong about everything THE CORBETT REPORT by James Corbett corbettreport.com Have you ever seen a news story about something you yourself have gone through? Or read a magazine article about a subject you happen to be familiar with? If so, then you've likely experienced what most people have felt in that situation: anger and bemusement. "How could that idiot reporter bungle the story so badly?! This isn't accurate at all!" As it turns out, journalists often get the most basic facts of the story wrong and freelancers on a deadline tend to falter when they have to summarize in a few paragraphs what others have spent decades researching. This isn't surprising. In fact, it's to be expected. After all, overworked "reporters" and freelance writers usually aren't experts in whatever arcane subject their editor has assigned them this week. They're just