[toss1941]

Just speaking about accuracy in all reporting of our time (not including specific trade publications), I think there has to be a clever moniker for the phenomenon that occurs when you read or hear a news report about a subject you are already intimately familiar with, where you spot multiple errors peppered throughout the article. Then, on subjects we know little about beforehand, we walk away confident that what we just consumed was wholesome and true. That has to have a name already right?

[Nadya]

You've probably read the name here on HN, so here you go:

The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

[toss1941]

Thanks! And to add, how can one possibly become less confident instead of more confident in our media the older one gets? I think the media is just a tool, to be used by those with the strings of the reporters, or the reporters themselves, to drive a desired message. Truth is hard to find. Wait, I'm already a cynic. Oh well, I'll just go watch old shows on netflix like Star Trek TNG where I won't be inundated with carefully crafted dilemma's with equally carefully crafted solutions and virtue signaling. Wait a minute...

[djsumdog]

A combination of selective memory, cherry picking and other logical fallacies can lead to cognitive dissonance. Things like nationalism, patriotism, propaganda and public relations can be used to place people into that state without them realising it. That is the power of advertising (ready about Edward Bernays and Anna Freud if you want to be really frightened).

Capitalism, communism, climate change, climate denial, racism, LGBT rights, reproductive rights, states rights, federal rights, debt, money, free markets, religion, atheism, healthy foods, unhealthy foods, pollution, consumerism, environmentalism ... you and I are wrong about one of these things. Statically we have to be. At least one of our core beliefs about society will eventually be proven entirely wrong at some point within the next century. Keep that in mind the next time you get into a political argument.