I think old school media is really adapting pretty horribly in most areas of news coverage, which is why I have altered my diet to more long form, smaller channel sources and I've been happier for it.
I'm optimistic that the internet will allow small, topic-focused media to flourish.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
My personal favorite is Poe’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law?wprov=sfti1
Which is all tangential, but it's great to finally see a journalist write a yes/no headline and actually notice that the answer is 'no'.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness...
I've been collecting them for the past few years and now have enough for a bingo card.
baumol's cost disease,
Chesterton's fence,
Berkson's paradox,
goodhart's law/Campbell's law,
Gell-Mann Amnesia affect,
Ship of Theseus,
The Zeigarnik effect,
Conway's law,
selection bias
heffindal index,
Betteridge's law of head lines,
survivorship bias,
bayes theorem
black swan,
Dunbar number,
Anscombe's quartet,
false positive/false negative,
fundamental attribution bias,
type 1 type 2 thinking,
grok,
simpson's paradox,
Hawthorne effect,
dunning kruger,
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon,
flynn effect,
Moving the overton window,
If I'm talking about the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" in daily conversation, I'm just gonna describe it like Crichton does in the quote, since naming it properly is going to result in having to explain it anyways, and the whole thing just comes across as being a bit self-important.
The ease of content creation and marketing has been an absolute boon to making better content available on almost all topics. From better pop science and math, to better long-form science and math, and even to just better commenting on news because you're getting commentary from experts who are directly involved.
It's a great time for content.