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I’m sure that the difficulty the New York Times editors have about summarizing laws related to online publishing shouldn’t make you wonder about what glaring mistakes are in their other reports about topics the newspaper wouldn’t be expected to know as deeply.

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Related to that, there's the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect[1], where an expert can see numerous mistakes on his area of expertise being reported on the news, but somehow takes the rest as being accurate.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

Murray Gell-Mann - "The quality of information" lecture on youtube from 1997 is also worth a listen.

Murray basically points out how much communication in general is really just exchanging errors for no reason.

I suspect this is where the idea of "Gell-Mann Amnesia" came from.

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