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What's with the blog title?
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.I've certainly experienced this myself, for example when reading about technology in the mainstream press or about Australian politics in the international press, it is nearly invariably wrong. But then I gobble up (mis)information about all sorts of other stuff without really questioning it.
Anyway, about this blog. This is my personal blog, and I'm likely to post about quite a variety of things: technology, politics, economics, travel, sport, and who knows what else. Some of those things I know quite a lot about, some of them not so much. Caveat emptor. Does Gell-Mann Amnesia apply to Blogs? I hope so; I certainly intend to take advantage of it. In any case, you can rest assured that whatever you read here is probably no more inaccurate than your favourite newspaper.
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