Isn’t there some kind of “effect” where people believe everything they see in the media until the media reports on the person’s own special field and gets everything wrong? I forget the name of it. Anyway, this guy has that, except he’s actually in the media so it took him longer to figure things out.
You may be thinking of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect as described by Michael Crichton.
https://niftycryptonomad.com/gell-mann-amnesia-effect-and-the-biased-reality-of-media-perception/"