I have also found that if I personally knew anything about an event the news article bore no resemblance to the truth. It caused me to believe that everything in the news was wrong. After a few weeks this view was forgotten, and I returned to my old ways of believing what I read was true.JALLEN wrote:I have had over the years a number of occasions where I was present at an event that was later written up in the newspaper. I can't recall any of them being recognizable from the article as what I saw or heard at said event. Often, I've wondered if I had really been in attendance.
I have been constantly amused by published accounts of airplane incidents, where it is manifestly clear to an experienced pilot that the reporter has no earthly idea what (s)he is talking about. Same with guns, actually.
Mark Twain put his finger on it. "A man who doesn't read the newspapers is uninformed. A man who does read the newspapers is misinformed."