So-called Experts and So-called Journalists... (261 hits)
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Submitted by Ron Jeremy <rennfahrer993.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2006-11-03 11:18:44 EST
This post: http://www.ubersite.com/m/94690 got me thinking. There are certainly other varieties of so-called experts should be subject to ridicule and perhaps severe bodily harm. The original poster discusses so-called experts with an agenda, but how about the so-called experts that state the painfully obvious? Does it bother anyone else that there seems to be a cottage industry of assholes that seem to make a living stating the equivalent of "2 + 2 = 4" in almost every conceivable topic one could possibly write some shitty "news" article about?
And while we're discussing so-called experts it seems only proper to discuss so-called journalists that give these so-called experts a voice in the public forum.
I have two examples. These are not the best examples, thousands of such articles are written every day but here are two that I just happened to come across today.
First, please review: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/alexpkeaton/index.html
Does it bother anyone else that cnn.com, a site that is charged with supply us, the American people with supposedly serious news of merit and value... IS WRITING A FUCKING ARTICLE ABOUT WHAT MICHAEL J. FOX THINKS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER HE PLAYED ON SOME SHITTY TV SHOW 15 YEARS AGO MIGHT THINK ABOUT TODAY'S CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT AND CANDIDATES? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
That's all I have to say on that one.
Second, please consider this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15308408/. Some rocket scientist (the so-called expert) figured out that employees generally write down their passwords and have lax password habits. Imagine that? Are there really corporate executives stupid enough that they have to take advice from this idiot? For anyone that works for a large corporation I'm sure you know the answer is a resounding yes.
In response to the original problem of people creating such secure passwords as their name or for example their birthday someone genius somewhere decided it would be a good idea to force us to all have passwords that are impossible to remember, a different "secure" password for each system and that we must change these passwords every couple of weeks (at differing intervals for each system so you can't ever have the same password for all systems) and that you can't use ANY of your previous 9 passwords. Note they define "secure password" as something like "Must be at least 8 characters, contain a number and contain a non alpha character (i.e. $,#,*,@,4,3,&) in the middle of the word. Who can remember six of those? Captain obvious the so-called expert thinks it's somehow news that people can't remember this fucking things and are going to write them down.
Comments please. Also what other genre's of so-called experts can you identify. So far we've dealt with the "so-called expert with an agenda" and the "the total fucking idiot that states the obvious so-called expert." Surely there are others.
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-11-03 13:38:55 EST (#)
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Make another post, you stupid fuck.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-11-03 11:24:02 EST (#)
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Submitted by gina (user info) at 2006-11-03 11:21:47 (#)
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I sat next to Ron Jeremy at an event last week. His head is as big as my entire ribcage...
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Submitted by gina (user info) at 2006-11-03 11:21:47 EST (#)
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I sat next to Ron Jeremy at an event last week. His head is as big as my entire ribcage...