Look how long Lyndon Johnson kept listening to his experts on Southeast Asia, or Enron to "The smartest guys in the room"; or consider who Andrew Cuomo has been listening to.
As night follows day, there came invites from the morning shows needing five minutes of expert insight into some sticky moral situation in that day's news.
L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace, as Danton had it; except in the wide world of expertise, fearless provocation won't get your head looking up from a basket, but instead talking with authority on CNN. Once you've gotten yourself media-vetted, it's almost impossible to lose your expert card.
How long has it been since Paul Ehrlich guaranteed there'd be mass worldwide starvation-50 years? Remember all those experts warning that AIDS was about to overwhelm the straight community? Wasn't Anthony Fauci one?
Happily, we experts in the media are especially free from irritating second-guessers, since we also make the ground rules.
Being an expert means never having to say you're sorry.
What are the naysayers going to do-point out the distance between what we say and how things really are? Expose us on Facebook or Google? Let's not forget, we're the experts there, too.
As night follows day, there came invites from the morning shows needing five minutes of expert insight into some sticky moral situation in that day's news.
L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace, as Danton had it; except in the wide world of expertise, fearless provocation won't get your head looking up from a basket, but instead talking with authority on CNN. Once you've gotten yourself media-vetted, it's almost impossible to lose your expert card.
How long has it been since Paul Ehrlich guaranteed there'd be mass worldwide starvation-50 years? Remember all those experts warning that AIDS was about to overwhelm the straight community? Wasn't Anthony Fauci one?
Happily, we experts in the media are especially free from irritating second-guessers, since we also make the ground rules.
Being an expert means never having to say you're sorry.
What are the naysayers going to do-point out the distance between what we say and how things really are? Expose us on Facebook or Google? Let's not forget, we're the experts there, too.
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