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news media

Entries tagged with news media - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

6 concepts

Availability Heuristic

We judge how likely something is based on how easily we can think of an example - not on how often it actually happens.

We seek out information that supports what we already believe, and ignore what doesn't.

Treating two things as equally valid or important when they clearly aren't.

The way information is presented changes how we respond to it - even when the underlying facts are identical.

When media systems produce public agreement with elite interests - not through censorship, but through structure.

Intense public fear about a perceived threat, amplified by media, disproportionate to the actual danger.