Expert Witness?
For many decades now, court cases have used expert witnesses. Experts in the topic in hand, but viewing the topic from an unbiased outsider’s perspective.
For some reason, tv news programs have decided to do the same thing.
For example, this rubbish that we apparently all need to know about John Terry. I really don’t care what he’s done. Not interested. However, the media have decided we all need to know. In order to comment on this story about his alleged affair, they bring in a sort of expert witness. Who is this expert witness? Another man, who has also had an affair. Which, of course, makes him excellently qualified to comment on someone else’s affair.
Utter madness.
They do it with pretty much everything. Does the story involve a child? Right, let’s bring in an expert witness. A mother. Who cares if she has anything to do with the story? She has a child, story involves a child, therefore she must be qualified to comment.
It’s nearly as bonkers as this new thing they have where the news readers must make their own succinct comment on each story. Was the story upsetting in any way? Right, let’s get the news reader to mutter “terrible” and shake their head in a disapproving manner, before continuing with the next story like nothing had ever happened.
Just read the news, preferably important news as opposed to what some celebrity had for breakfast. Then go away.
