RE: “Palestinian source for feel-good ‘NYT’ story on Haifa says newspaper censored his political views”
MY COMMENT: Pity the “Old Gray Lady”; she’s showing her age! That poor New York Times is suffering severely from “Buyer’s Stockholm Syndrom”*. As of yet, there is no known cure.
* “Buyer’s Stockholm Syndrome”, a/k/a “post-purchase rationalization”, is a cognitive bias [i.e. in essence, a type of defence mechanism] whereby someone who has purchased an expensive product or service overlooks [i.e., is in denial as to] any faults or defects (while exaggerating the positive attributes) in order to justify their purchase [thereby diminishing any “buyers remorse” (i.e., sense of regret / second guessing / cognitive dissonance)]. It is a special case of “choice-supportive bias”*.
● Post-purchase rationalization, a/k/a Buyer’s Stockholm Syndrome – link to en.wikipedia.org
* Choice-supportive bias
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In cognitive science, choice-supportive bias is the tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected. It is a cognitive bias. For example, if a person buys a computer from Apple instead of a computer (PC) running Windows, they are likely to ignore or downplay the faults of Apple computers while amplifying those of Windows computers. Conversely, they are also likely to notice and amplify advantages of Apple computers and not notice or de-emphasize those of Windows computers.
What is remembered about a decision can be as important as the decision itself, especially in determining how much regret or satisfaction one experiences.[1] Research indicates that the process of making and remembering choices yields memories that tend to be distorted in predictable ways.[1] In cognitive science, one predictable way that memories of choice options are distorted is that positive aspects tend to be remembered as part of the chosen option, whether or not they originally were part of that option, and negative aspects tend to be remembered as part of rejected options.[1] Once an action has been taken, the ways in which we evaluate the effectiveness of what we did may be biased.[2] It is believed this may influence our future decision-making. These biases may be stored as memories, which are attributions that we make about our mental experiences based on their subjective qualities, our prior knowledge and beliefs, our motives and goals, and the social context. True and false memories arise by the same mechanism because when the brain processes and stores information, it cannot tell the difference from where they came from.[3] . . .
CONTINUED AT – link to en.wikipedia.org
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January 5th, 2016 
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