I don't think it's a failure of memory, I think it's a failure of generalisation.
By the way, London isn't one big smouldering hole. On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Gadi Evron wrote: > A few years ago doc solly said something, I'll reconstruct the quote as > I have no idea where to find it. Probably somewhere in the ancient > TH-Research archives. > > "It is amazing to me that when people read something they know about in > the press, which is wrongly portrayed, they don't make the logical > conclusion that the rest may be just as bad." (not original quote) > > Today Hank enlightened me on Facebook that this is called the Gell-man > 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. In Murray's > case, physics. In mine, show business. 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 > backwardreversing 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." > Michael Crichton > > Source: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/65213 > > Gadi. > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
