“We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.” ForceNumbersOur LivesViolenceMediaMassTerroristExpertsAgencyOfficialsScareArticlesPredictionsTacticsFascistsArmed ForcesMass MediaKidnappingPublic OfficialsIntelligence AgenciesScare Tactics Author:Mae Brussell
“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?” FactsHomeAgeCommunityFiveMediaAcceptancePercentOld AgeExpertsSixtyEmphasisNinetyNursingNursing Home Book:Fountain of Age Source: Fountain of Age
“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.” WorldTwoCharacterInfluenceMediaInformationMomBearsDadCirclesFlightExpertsElectricSageEarnestMom And Dad Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.” ThinkingWorldIdeasPainMediaTvsExcitingI RealizedKneesExpertsOnlinePrintCablesVenues Author:John Hodgman
“It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.” KnowsNaturalMediaTelevisionAuthorityConceptsInevitableExpertsMeaninglessExpertiseProliferation Author:John Hodgman
“I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.” KindI CanSecurityMediaInformationSmartSavingExpertsHomelandKnowledgeableVery SmartHomeland SecuritySaving Your Life Author:Amanda Ripley
“I play Sun-Hi, a Korean-American girl who is a social media expert and dreams of becoming a worldwide star. Being on Make It Pop is so much fun because we get to sing dance and act all in one production which is a dream come true! Working with the cast and crew is also a blast!” PlayDreamGirlFunSocialStarsSunMediaBecomingCastsProductionsSocial MediaPopsExpertsCrewDreams Come TrueBlastKorean Author:Megan Lee
“I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.” IfsThinkingStillsBookMomentsLeftCreativePiecesMediaPaperComputerRegardExpertsBe CreativeOld FashionedLeft AloneNew MediaPowerpointWorking All The Time Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."” BigsCitiesTreeMediaPaperNosesExpertsShakesBentPapersBig CitiesGorillas Author:Edwin Diamond