“I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!” ThinkingWellsShowsNewsCrisisExpertsExceptionFrustratedCablesGet RealCnnTalk Shows Author:Howard Stringer
“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.” MenDoeWarRealitySeemsCertainEmotionSituationMilitaryFrontsEventsDangerExamplePerceptionNewsMassArmySurpriseCrowdsSensitiveExpertsVisibleRaysDefeatedObscureTranscendentalAurasGreat Events Author:Marcel Proust
“You think they could stop putting these experts on the news with their doomsday scenarios of how the terrorists might attack us? Because you get the sense they're coming up with ideas that these people haven't thought of themselves.” PeopleThinkingIdeasMightHavensNewsTerroristExpertsScenariosDoomsday Author:Greg Giraldo
“Here's some exciting news - according to The New York Post, both Al Gore and John Kerry are thinking of running for president in 2008. Gore and Kerry again! Political experts say it's too early to tell who would lose bigger!” ThinkingRunningPoliticalPresidentLosesNew YorkNewsBiggerExcitingPostsExpertsAlsGoreJohn Kerry Author:Jay Leno
“I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!” IfsNewsDefinitionsTheatreExpertsI've LearnedGood News Author:Alan Rickman
“The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."” SelfTodayChangedSpeechNewsPressesEndlessLandscapeAnalysisExpertsStreamsMeaninglessFree SpeechCommentatorsSidelinesNews Reporting Author:Chelsea Manning
“The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensRealityPoliticalHateTermWatchesExampleNewsHatredDemocraticCoreDefinedChiefsAdministrationExpertsResentmentStaffStereotypeFoxesFox NewsStrategistElitistDeputiesChief Of Staff Author:Sidney Blumenthal
“Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.” MayFunnyWeaponsNewsIraqNuclearExpertsBombsSarcasticNuclear WeaponsGood NewsBad NewsCamelsNuclear BombGood News And Bad News Author:David Letterman
“Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.” KnowsTryingBelieveStillsHardFactsSeemsLastsSoundMediaNewsArmyDepthExpertsBitesLooking BackShockingConfusingNews MediaContradictingSound Bites Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War