Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Sunday, October 31, 2004
Any reader of this newspaper knows how The Times likes to invoke the wisdom of people identified as "experts" or "analysts," but until I counted their presence the other day I had no idea how crowded with expertise the paper was. On Tuesday alone, such seers and sages were rolled out 33 times. In a few cases they even added useful wisdom or perspective. In many others, though, their presence may have achieved the opposite of what the writers intended: they made readers wonder whether they were being conned.
Oddly enough the more the PUBLIC EDI-TOR writes stuff like this the more tenuous THE PAPER OF RE-CORD's grasp of reality.
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