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May 26, 2009
Is this true?
Use of the word "experts" is one of the great tells in journalism. It usually means something close to "those people I cherry-picked to agree with my thesis." It is an artificial and scientific-sounding reputation-enhancer, one used in stark contrasts to the way that critics of said thesis will be portrayed in the same article.The California Scare Campaign
One more tool to be a skeptical reader.
Posted by OneEyedMan at May 26, 2009 10:08 AM
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