It’s what Crichton called the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
We see the newspaper (or a TV show, or a book) get something spectacularly wrong (No, NCIS, two hackers typing on the same keyboard won’t be able to “hack faster”). And then we watch the next episode, which has nothing to do with our own area of expertise, and think, “Oh, that sounds plausible.”
If they get the stuff wrong that you know about, it’s a good indicator that they don’t care enough to get the stuff you don’t know about right, either.
