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Everybody Knows Democrats and Pravda Media Lied,
Yet They Buy The Trump Criticisms
16 May 2025 ~~ By David Strom.
Ed just wrote an excellent piece on the "Biden Nightmare" being an anvil around the neck of the Democrats.
And it is true that both the media and the Democrats have taken a major hit in their approval ratings, and that some Democrats and left-leaning Independents have reconsidered their allegiance to both.
And yet, many of those people who say they have lost trust in these institutions are still accepting their characterizations of what Trump is doing.
This phenomenon is called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
This phenomenon is called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.
The concept was coined by novelist Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, naming it after Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with whom he had discussed the phenomenon.
Murray Gell-Mann recognized this bias in his own thinking. Every time he talked with a journalist about something, he was shocked at what they wrote. They clearly didn't have a clue about the subject and always got key points wrong. So he KNEW that journalists he dealt with were usually wrong, yet he continued to believe other things he read in the newspapers because he assumed that those journalists were somehow better.The concept was coined by novelist Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, naming it after Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with whom he had discussed the phenomenon.
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There is ample evidence for all to see that the Pravda Media lie, that Democrats gleefully lie and brag about it (Nancy Pelosi bragged about smearing her opponents, and Harry Reid bragged that he lied about Romney and it worked), and yet millions of Americans are now up in arms about what these liars claim Trump is doing.
They hear Trump is a fascist, so they worry that Trump is a fascist. They hear Trump is throwing people off Medicare, so they worry Trump will throw them off Medicare. They hear he is cutting Social Security, so they are outraged that he is. They believe Trump is deporting innocent Americans, planning to throw his opponents in jail, and will soon become Hitler reborn.
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It is a tragedy for the country, because we need a trustworthy media to hold people of both parties accountable and to inform us about the world. The Israel-Gaza war is a great example of how off track things can become when people just swallow the propaganda poured out by a media that literally employs Hamas operatives to write stories based on stories cooked up by the Gaza Health Ministry.
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Yet the propaganda works, and it is due to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. People know the media lies, but believe them on any issue of which they are insufficiently educated.
Commentary:
I have recognized for a long time that arguing with many of the people around me is fruitless. They really do live in an alternate and different world. We have totally different perspectives on the world because we have totally different sources of information.
Yet, they continue to believe the "mainstream" media despite all of its lies. It really is infuriating and frustrating. Decent people believe lies and end up supporting evil. Much like 1930s Germany.
It’s like drinking sewer water, spitting it out, cursing it, and pouring another glass and expecting it to taste better. The media’s number one weapon is repetition, and we have a fifth column that carries their every utterance and fabricated story in the name of “knowing what the other side thinks.” As if you have to look very far not to know that.
I personally equate our Media with Norway's "Quisling" that closely collaborated with the Nazi's
Even William Casey, former CIA Director, famously stated, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
