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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Dr. Phil went into detail on why Burke Ramsey displayed the facial expressions that he did. It made sense to me. I’m a little surprised Freepers are so willing to believe what happened by watching a tv show on cbs.....of all networks.


54 posted on 09/20/2016 8:59:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN
I’m a little surprised Freepers are so willing to believe what happened by watching a tv show on cbs.....of all networks.

Me too.

Probably what Michael Crichton called 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.”


82 posted on 09/20/2016 9:44:32 AM PDT by eddie willers
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