TIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect; when experts find articles published within their field to be full of errors, but trust articles about other fields in the same publication - eviltoast
  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    The original describes a newspaper, and those are written by multiple people. The editors are even different. For example, I trust the Associated Press more than my local paper.

    I do wonder if that plays in.

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      3 months ago

      Odds are fairly high that your local newspaper is printing mainly wire stories anyway, from AP, Reuters, whatnot.