Those annoying people-are-stupid narratives in journalism – Beragampengetahuan

Palko writes:

Journalists love people-are-stupid narratives, but, while I believe cognitive dissonance is real, I think the lesson here is not “To an enthusiastically trusting public, his failure only made his gifts seem more real” and is instead that we should all be more skeptical of simplistic and overused pop psychology.

It’s easier for me to just give the link above than to explain all the background. The story is interesting on its own, but here I just wanted to highlight this point that Palko makes. Yes, people can be stupid, but it’s frustrating to see journalists take a story of a lawsuit-slinging celebrity and try to twist it into a conventional pop-psychology narrative.