For the companies you&#x27;ve heard of, the median number of names you remember of people who work there is zero. For some companies you pay attention to, it might be one (typically the CEO), or two, or maybe more if you have a deeper relationship with them. If you work there it might even be hundreds. But once a company gets to a certain size nobody remembers everyone&#x27;s name.<p>Similarly for bands or movies. The lead may be male or female, but either way, nobody except the most obsessed fan or people who worked there is going to remember more than a few names. The closing credits give you a more accurate picture of how many people it takes to make a movie, but that&#x27;s not the story anyone can remember.<p>The press knows this already. If you&#x27;re going to interact with them, you need to understand their need to tell a good story, or nobody&#x27;s going to read the article.<p>So I think we can&#x27;t blame the press for this (much). They could tell slightly more complicated stories, but they&#x27;re still going to be inaccurate, and you won&#x27;t remember all the names anyway.<p>If anything, blame how human memory works, and keep in mind that no matter what stories you read, the world isn&#x27;t really story-shaped.