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by PaulHoule
2662 days ago
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I have a funny feeling that this guy is going to push an agenda, particularly with his "free candy" example. The trouble with the "the revolt of the masses" theme is that institutions are failing us, experts are frequently wrong, and if you want to see fake experts turn on cable news and there you are... Cokie Roberts is always warning democrats to turn the right or otherwise we'll have to have somebody like Pinochet purge the left (she won't tell you her husband was a foreign agent for the Pinochet regime.) All b.s. All the time was not invented by Facebook, look at how the rush Limbaugh show was reality free before the web was invented. |
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The media doesn’t care about anything, they want a face who can act as an expert of the matter at hand, they don’t care if the expert has real expertise — they care if the expert can say something experty that simple minds understand.
Everbody who has seen known experts in a field on TV knows that they will tell you afterwards that of that long interview session they just had to take the two sentences were you made the mistake of speculation. A mistake that stops many real experts from speculating on TV or stops them totally from ever doing TV stuff at all.
Of course you will always find real experts who enjoy it to have their voice heard and their face seen, and they will abandon all ideals to get their egos massaged — these will be kept on fast-dial by TV producers.