I often see it in my relatives who don't trust the media yet still look to the media to validate any non-mainstream topic.
I see this in my father and it annoys the absolute shit out of me.
"You can't trust anything the media tells you, bunch of lying vultures. They'll say anything to push a leftist agenda."
*compulsively reaches for the remote and flips on ABC news*
TONIGHT! BREAKING NEWS! BOMBSHELL! ORANGE MAN BAD!
"Uh, why are you watching this crap?"
"Well I gotta know what's going on, don't I?!"
Fucking idiot knows the media lies, knows that they push Democrat propaganda, but for some reason still thinks he's informing himself by watching them. I've long since given up trying to point out his retardation.
I could kiss you!!! I had forgotten what this was called and was searching in vain for it for months, and thanks to you I HAVE IT!
.The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is 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 as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
-- Michael Crichton”
I see this in my father and it annoys the absolute shit out of me.
"You can't trust anything the media tells you, bunch of lying vultures. They'll say anything to push a leftist agenda."
*compulsively reaches for the remote and flips on ABC news*
TONIGHT! BREAKING NEWS! BOMBSHELL! ORANGE MAN BAD!
"Uh, why are you watching this crap?"
"Well I gotta know what's going on, don't I?!"
Fucking idiot knows the media lies, knows that they push Democrat propaganda, but for some reason still thinks he's informing himself by watching them. I've long since given up trying to point out his retardation.
Next time ask him why he needs to know what's going on, and if he's ever done anything different ever in his life because the news told him something.
well, if I spend 4 years in the dark who do I vote for?
It’s like an offshoot of Murray-Gelman Amnesia, where you know it’s bullshit, but keep tuning in on other topics
I could kiss you!!! I had forgotten what this was called and was searching in vain for it for months, and thanks to you I HAVE IT!
.The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is 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 as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” -- Michael Crichton”
Ha, I guess I butchered the spelling a little but glad I could help. Now you’ll see it everywhere, haha.
It's a Rasmussen poll.