Giving truthiness to falsity
September 10, 2007
Here’s a report that’s unlikely to brighten your day. On The Media relates a study about how the brain tends to cling to the most-heard piece of information as true, even if the actual quote said it was false. I bet GOP strategists have known about this for a long time.
That would explain why Faux News repeats the same headline on every program they run when the headline is something like the lead-up to the Iraq war. Or why Tom DeLay is a hero…
It explains lots of stuff. Creationists, for example.