“The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happenedprovided by sources is an enormous gray area.”- Edward Jay Epstein
In this tactic, Holiday talk about The Deliberate Leak and how it is considered “okay” to stretch the true. On Wikipedia, the truth can be exaggerated and manipulated. On blogs, “new truths” are created. This gray area that Epstein mentions in the quote above is an area we allow because, like the title reads, we hear what we want to hear.
XIX The Myth of Corrections
In this chapter, Holiday talks about being wrong—and fixing mistakes. Within the world of media.
Holiday mentions the term Cognitive Rigidity and the Psychology of error. Holiday explains that the human mind creates a framework for information once we accept a plausible explanation for something. Subconsciously, we tend to place all our information into a framework “whether it fits or not”