In the years after a traumatic news event, we’re prone to confuse things we saw on TV with what we witnessed in person.
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It’s not as if the newsrooms of US television stations need any more bad publicity
In the beginning, newscasters weren’t even visible to TV news viewers. With Walter Cronkite, everything changed.
Greek and Roman historians were also known to fudge or fabricate their time in the field.
Credibility, generally, is seen as a dividend of honesty. Tell the truth and, over time, people will come to regard you as a trustworthy person, a reliable source of information. Given this formula, the…
Many of us have asked ourselves in the past few days: can you really falsely remember something as significant as being in a helicopter that was shot down? And many of us probably think “No way,” and quickly…
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