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2025-05-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
The Washington Post said George Floyd was shot and killed in police custody.
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Posted by Fred 2025-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [164 views ]  Top
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#1 The Gell-Mann 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 backward—reversing 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.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

— Michael Crichton
Posted by SteveS 2025-05-27 00:50||   2025-05-27 00:50|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 The leaked pre-official Autopsy reports say otherwise.

Besides, the WP is not a NEWS-paper.
It's just a Political Rag reciting LSD agenda BS. Second only to CNN.

Google:
"List of retractions or corrections Washington Post had." for some examples.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-27 04:36||   2025-05-27 04:36|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 
Here is the FULL Official 20-page Autopsy Report for George Floyd, says otherwise.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-05-27 06:26||   2025-05-27 06:26|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-27 07:35||   2025-05-27 07:35|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-27 07:37||   2025-05-27 07:37|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-27 09:52||   2025-05-27 09:52|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#7 Jeff Bezos can kiss my ass.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-05-27 12:50||   2025-05-27 12:50|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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