What Exactly Are These People ‘Experts’ Of?
Derek Hunter
Posted: Jun 06, 2021 12:01 AM
The year of the pandemic was the best thing to happen to cable news – a captive audience stuck at home with a reason to tune in regularly. They really hate to see it end. CNN’s ratings have cratered even greater than their credibility, which didn’t seem humanly possible considering they employ Chris Cuomo. The other networks and print outlets haven’t suffered the same fate, at least not yet. But whatever media emerges from this year of failure, mis- and disinformation should be viewed with the same skepticism and contempt CNN rightly finds itself in the center of.
Everyone got something wrong in the last year, just as everyone gets something wrong every year. We’re human, screwing up and getting things wrong is what we do. But we’re different from the animals because we can learn from those mistakes. We’re supposed to, it’s a key part of growing up.
Yet, the media not only doesn’t appear to have learned anything from the past year, they’ve doubled down on their failures. The soothsayers they employ predicted pretty much every possible outcome, at one point or another. That’s a lot of things, but it’s not news or even insight. It’s the equivalent of putting a dollar on every number on a roulette table – sure, you’ll “win” and be able to brag about your winning streak, but you’ll lose money each time.
Anyone with an MD was on TV talking like they knew what they were saying, like they were an “expert.” They weren’t, and some weren’t even close. And so were people without MDs.
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