We know that media are wrong in our field of expertise; yet on other topics we trust them [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect]
Experts forget how badly their own subject is treated in media and believe that subjects they don’t know much about are treated more competently by the same media. [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.] “You turn the page, and forget what you know.” Lies by media, police, politicians are treated as “isolated incidents” of misinformation, not of wholesale …