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The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect and not noticing that news is a consumer product

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The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect and not noticing that news is a consumer product

Plus some memories of doing really terrible journalism

Mike Hind
Sep 25, 2021
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Consuming 'news' from the perspectives of two countries quickly reveals how contaminated it is by the need to make it interesting to your particular market.

A current example is the row over Australia cancelling its order for 12 French-built submarines. I live near Cherbourg, where a large chunk of the €50 billion euro deal would have been earned.  So wh…

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