<story><title>Don&apos;t Outsource Your Thinking (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjlee</author><text>Michael Crichton observed this and called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. I think he said publicly that the name was to ride on the coat tails of Gell-Mann&amp;#x27;s public success:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray&amp;#x27;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 &amp;quot;wet streets cause rain&amp;quot; stories. Paper&amp;#x27;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.”</text></comment>
<story><title>Don&apos;t Outsource Your Thinking (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I wish I could upvote this more. This is such a pain for me, to see a reported story and see an obvious question that any &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt; journalist could answer just sitting there, unanswered. It made me wonder what they teach in Journalism school these days.&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, not much about investigation. I looked through the curriculum at Berkeley[1] (a respected journalism school) and found things like J260[2] which is a seminar more on &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; of investigative reporting than the &amp;quot;how&amp;quot;. There is also a &amp;quot;web skills&amp;quot;[3] class, but this is just about building a web site.&lt;p&gt;They really should consider adding a &amp;#x27;using the Internet to find people, corroborate sources, discover links between individuals and corporations, and to track ownership relationships.&amp;#x27; Something that, as the author points out, is really a bunch of useful web sites and how to click them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&amp;#x2F;curriculum&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&amp;#x2F;curriculum&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investigativereportingprogram.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investigativereportingprogram.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&amp;#x2F;course-section&amp;#x2F;j215intro-to-multimedia-web-skills-section-1-1-fall-2016&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;journalism.berkeley.edu&amp;#x2F;course-section&amp;#x2F;j215intro-to-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>