@lokeloski Very well put. To me, this is similar to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, where for subjects we have deep knowlege about, we see all the flaws in media reports, but tend to assume that for all other subjects, the media reports are basically fine. @davidgerard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect?wprov=sfla1

@davidgerard @geeeero @lokeloski

The story may be made up but the effect is real. I started noticing it in journalism in the '90s... journalists often seemed authoritatively good at stuff I didn't know anything about, but as soon as they started writing about the Internet, or anything else that was at the time a bit esoteric but I know a lot about, their stuff was obvious twaddle.

See also Knoll's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll