I would argue that national politics and international affairs as they are covered in mass news media is a different type of coverage. It’s not about learning technical details and explaining them. It’s more about observing actions and broad sentiment and literally reporting those observations. I wouldn’t trust a reporter to get scientific details correct about some chemical process that’s the subject of some debated EPA regulation, but I could trust a reporter to summarize the debate and report on the sentiment of politicians, public sentiment based on opinion polls, etc. It would be weird to say “that newspaper screwed up the difference between a dominant 7th chord and a major 7th chord in a story about a famous songwriter, therefore I can’t trust them to report which politicians gave the most heated arguments in the debate about the EPA bill.”
https://www.valleynewslive.com/2023/03/09/fargo-cbd-store-ow...
"“Semi-synthetic derivatives, or chemically derived cannabinoids, refer to certain types of substances that are produced by converting a cannabis extract into a different substance through chemical reaction,” said forensic scientist with the North Dakota State Crime Laboratory Charlene Rittenbach at the March 3 committee hearing of the bill.
For example, according to the Addiction Prevention Coalition, to make THC-O: you need to extract CBD, extract Delta 8 THC from the CBD and then add acetic anhydride.
The National Library of Medicine says acetic anhydride is corrosive to metals and tissue, and it’s used to make fibers, plastics, dyes and explosives."
> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/