Someone once told me people read the Economist because they think it makes them look smart.

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It’s been a good paper, over many decades. But their journalism around Bitcoin has been very surface, which makes me wonder about every thing else.

Gell-Mann amnesia effect

I had not heard of that, but yes. From Wikipedia … ‘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’.