More and more television networks now keep in-house “experts” to whom they can refer anytime a major terrorist attack occurs. The credibility of these “experts,” on the other hand, is rapidly deteriorating.
In the past, whenever a person was introduced as an “expert” on a television news program or talk show, that was usually a kind of advance apology on the part of the network. It generally meant, here is someone who isn’t good looking enough to be on-screen all the time because he looks like he just woke up; somebody who gets bogged down in uninteresting details and who can only be brought back to the interesting stuff if there’s someone there to keep him focused, and when he’s finished, we think all he did was babble some kind of un-intelligible junk. No matter. He was giving us the benefit of knowledge none of us would have otherwise had; he’s an authority on the subject, and that’s why he appears as a foreign object in the body of our program.
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