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The Morning Paper

Saturday, 12 August 2023, 9:00 MJA Uncategorized 16

How does today’s bullshit stack up next to yesterday’s?

16 Comments on The Morning Paper

  2. Same old tired bullshit, new day. Next day, more of the same bullshit etc. etc. People are fooled by the newer bullshit constantly in order to make them believe all the new and improved more elaborately false bullshit tomorrow. When will it ever end? I quit believing all the media’s lies and bullshit and lies years ago.

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  5. I miss reading the outrageous headlines in The Weekly World News at the grocery store checkout line and laughing out loud making my wife look like she didn’t know me. The Weekly World News was like reading The Babylon Bee but even more outrageous and funny.

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  7. Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved.

    You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann
    Amnesia effect. … Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You
    open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.
    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.

    That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one
    part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we
    believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to
    read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly
    isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

    —Michael Crichton

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  10. Send a press release to or be interviewed by a reporter, then read the resulting article and you will be amazed at how the facts get garbled, names get mispelled, and quotes get taken out of context or oddly edited.

    When you see your own words so distorted, it makes you suspicious of everything you read in the paper.

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  12. We used to go to the drugstore and read some fake, some real headlines from those papers out loud.

    “Monster eats Pope” was an all time hit. Lots of Italians around. 😁

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