FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agoTIL 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 publicationen.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1350arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1348arrow-down1external-linkTIL 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 publicationen.m.wikipedia.orgFundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMNByChoicelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·4 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·4 months agoOdds are fairly high that your local newspaper is printing mainly wire stories anyway, from AP, Reuters, whatnot.
minus-squarepsmgx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoAnd AP ain’t printing your local news
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.
Odds are fairly high that your local newspaper is printing mainly wire stories anyway, from AP, Reuters, whatnot.
And AP ain’t printing your local news