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Whenever I read mainstream news on topics I'm deeply familiar with, and I see how badly they are reported, I realise that mainstream news probably misreports al
by jordigh 13y ago
Whenever I read mainstream news on topics I'm deeply familiar with, and I see how badly they are reported, I realise that mainstream news probably misreports all topics, not just the ones I'm familiar with.
- Tenoke 13y ago"The Gell-Mann amnesia effect"
- aptwebapps 13y agoI'm convinced this is true for most mainstream news reports on even slightly technical topics. It's not just IT - if you talk to people in other disciplines you get the same response. I think you could discount a little bit of it as experts being overly picky and journalists having to bring the topic to the masses, but it's often much worse than that.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoI was thinking about this and wondering if it would be possible to have a news organisation with no article writers, just editors who solicit articles and interviews from domain experts.
- trebor 13y agoIt would be so different I'm sure that it has a chance to succeed, but it wouldn't necessarily be easy to get started. I'm thinking mainly about the difficulty in forming contacts, etc.