Journalists can be pretty good at reporting local events and uncovering the relationships between local people ("this property developer's husband made a big lo

Journalists can be pretty good at reporting local events and uncovering the relationships between local people ("this property developer's husband made a big loan to that town councilor before the councilor suddenly changed his vote to approve a development"). Where they almost always fail is analysis and domain knowledge. Gell-Mann amnesia describes the failures of technical reporting.