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Saturday, October 30, 2004Bad reporters find experts by calling up university press relations officials or brokerage research departments and saying, in effect, "Gimme an expert"; some academic publicity machines send out rosters, complete with phone numbers, e-mail addresses and areas of expertise, so that the lazy journalist doesn't even have to make that first call. Really bad reporters, paradoxically, work a little harder: knowing the conclusions they want to arrive at, they seek out experts who just happen to agree with them. Give me a position, and I'll find you an expert to support it - and not just an expert but one with an institutional affiliation sounding so dignified it could make a nobleman genuflect. Give me a Center for the Study of ..., an Institute for the Advancement of ..., or an American Council on ..., and often as not I'll give you an organization whose special interests are as sharply defined as its name is not. He's talking about experts that get quoted in the news, but the same applies to those "expert witnesses" in our court system. posted by Sydney on 10/30/2004 09:32:00 PM 1 comments 1 Comments:
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