Ed just wrote an excellent piece on the “Biden Nightmare” being an anvil around the neck of the Democrats.
And it is true that both the media and the Democrats have taken a major hit in their approval ratings, and that some Democrats and left-leaning Independents have reconsidered their allegiance to both.
And yet, many of those people who say they have lost trust in these institutions are still accepting their characterizations of what Trump is doing.
This phenomenon is called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.
The concept was coined by novelist Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, naming it after…
