>Before you comment I would urge you to go find some reporting by the NYTimes of something you know a lot about - your favoured programming language or a compan

>Before you comment I would urge you to go find some reporting by the NYTimes of something you know a lot about - your favoured programming language or a company you work for, and see how well their reporting matches your understanding of the topic. The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. Which was coined of course by... Michael Crichton. Anyway, it's a good rule of thumb. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...