I used to see it as a choice between being uninformed and informed. Now I see it as uninformed and misinformed and I'll take the former. Michael Crichton naile

I used to see it as a choice between being uninformed and informed. Now I see it as uninformed and misinformed and I'll take the former. Michael Crichton nailed it with Gell Mann Amnesia[0]. I see it all over the place on topics I know well such as coverage of companies I worked at or political topics I was very well informed about. Sometimes it feels innocent - a reporter too "dumb" to get the nuance and thus missing the point, sometimes it feels deliberate - eg consistently chopping off context to create an emotional charge. Either way, I saw that the news would lead me to the wrong conclusion if I didn't already know better - and then obviously that it must be leading me to wrong conclusions on topics where I don't know. Which is most. [0] https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/ https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/