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In light of a new study, we have to wonder about the effectiveness of Newsweek’s -- or any news outlet's -- retractions or corrections:
The research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the American Psychological Society, suggests that once you've seen a news report, you may go on believing it, even if later information shows it to have been false.
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Tracked on May 19, 2005 12:16:05 PM
Of course it is. How many times do you watch a legal drama where one attorney or another makes a ludicrous claim; the opposing attorney calls out "objection"; the judge says "sustained" and instructs the jury to disregard what it has just heard? You know that the damage has been done; you can't put a genie back into the bottle.
Posted by: David Gerstman at May 18, 2005 12:52:30 PM
Like the "100,000" dead civilians in Iraq "fact" that so many leftists, including many in the media, love to carelessly throw out?. Wrong!
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108887/
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2003/0610aptallies.htm
It's a nice round number. It sticks.
Posted by: penny at May 18, 2005 6:33:37 PM
Thanks for that Penny. As you say 100,000 is a round number.
It looks on the face of it to be another case of negligent reporting in order to convey an anti-Western, anti-war stance.
It would not surprise me if when fully investigated it turned out that the level of deaths in Iraq after the start of the war turned out to be lower than the figures which Saddam Hussein perpetrated on his own people. In which case it would have been mightily vindicated. However that researched result, if it proves true, would not meet with the approval of such open minded thinkers as George Galloway, Robert Fisk, Claire Short et al.
Posted by: Robert at May 20, 2005 3:43:26 PM
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