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> In that, the critique seemed hopelessly ignorant of how the news works.

I can't blame him for suffering from Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect

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But he's not suffering from G-MAE here. G-MAE is about forgetting how factually wrong journalism is almost all of time vs. when it is wrong in relation to your specialty. Pointing out the errors when you can is part of the solution, not a continuation of the effect. The continuation occurs when one assumes generally that those errors aren't rampant in cases unrelated to what one already knows.

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